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Hi Ed

Thanks for that. I feel like a tit now cause I was soo sure I had already done that , but grateful for you noticing it

I will leave it a while now and see how things go, though i am still little dissapointed that while the new homepage has been updated, our links static html page is still awaiting re finding.

Cheers mate !  

Hi Don

Thanks for your reply!

I havent modified any of the Seach Engine items such as robots.txt in the standard CCP package, so I can only assume that the text files i found were what is required, though i hadnt found a specific "robots.txt" file. Anyone know if this is right ?

Checking web stats shows that the google.bot is finding the main page okay, and having a few thousand hits, but certainly nothing like what it should be. My error in not updating the links to SEO optimised ones would presumably explain the exclusion of the shop so far from being googled, i just hope it helps 

You have made an interesting point regarding having both wwwrmdaudio.co.uk and rmdaudio.co.uk . Could you elaborate a little more on this as I havent done anything to specifically do this, and a quick scan showed no links that are direct to the non "www" version , tbh hadnt noticed a non www version before.

Its been quite a struggle over the past little while getting to grips with designing the original site, then rudimentary learning of CGI for the shop, and now trying to figure out the best way to get my site exposed to everyone, which is just as confusing to start with.

Happily you guyz here are very helpful for beginners like me, so it helps me pick this up much better !!

Any advice on how to make the site show better in search engines is much appreciated  

Hi Ed

Thanks for that, will look into testing that in a bit, and see what happens.

As a matter of curiousity, do you know how this would have happened in the first place?  

Cheers Don

Im sure i must sound like a right pillock with some of my questions sometimes, as they must be pretty obvious ! But trust me I am learning all the time, is good to know theres people out there that can answer my ( sometimes obvious) questions and keep me on the track of learning this programming malarkey quicker

Will sort that mod rewrite out tonite or first thing tomorrow if i can, and get that sorted.

Its become a mission now to try and get this site as high as possible in the Search Engines.. any advice to help me on my mission would be great!  

Ed_H,12/29/2004 02:22:25 PM wrote:

I've redirected requests for the non-www version to the www version of a site by adding the following lines to the .htaccess.  In this example the first two lines and the last line are existing lines in the seo mod .htaccess:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mysite\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

RewriteRule ^shop /ccp51/cgi-bin/cp-app.cgi?pg=shop

This may NOT work with your configuration, but there is probably an alternate solution if it doesn't.

Careful Guys, This code that Ed has posted is fine for those people who have the same domain name for https (secure) transactions.  However, if you have a different URL for secure transactions (read shared SSL server certificate) then this will not work for you.  All your secure transactions for checkout will be re-directed to non-secure!

I thought I'd speak up and say this so nobody else starts pulling hair.