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Its implied that it's http:// It's not a big deal and all the major browsers don't need it unless your looking for https:// or ftp://

Heck if you look at advertisements today they don't even display http:// anymore for web sites.

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This can be fixed in www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

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You did notice there no http:// in the options, just the site with www or without it.

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This can be fixed in www.google.com/webmasters/tools/

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That's entirely different. Google actually sees www and no-www as two different domains. For SEO purposes, it is best that you chose one or the other. To "resolve" the issue, you normally create an .htaccess rule that redirects one to the other, so that only ONE option is available. Thus, why it asks which option you want (www or no-www.)

http:// is useless to google and any other search engine. It's unnecessary.

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What results are you seeing? Google has a cache of your website so it's picking up the following which shows your website as "under construction."

Might want to read over these:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=70897

http://www.google.com/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/webmasters?hl=en

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you should set a htaccess rewrite

just open up (or make) a file called ".htaccess"

edit it and put this code in:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://([^.]+\.)?bayareatechpros\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)/[^/]+/[^.]+\.xls$ http://www.bayareatechpros.com/$1/ [NC,R=302,L] 

this will rewrite all http:// to http://www. , keeping your page uniform amongst a bunch of search engines. Its one of the basic pillars of seo.

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If you're going to post up code, might want to remove what isn't applicable. He doesn't need the rewrite rule for the .xls you've got in there :).

That being said it's a site owner's discretion to use www or no-www. You can redirect to one of the two and it will work out just fine with SEO.

Also, would probably be best to have

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Yes, I was going to do that

but currently on linux server, shall I place it inside public_html or in in the directory behind "\". I believe it goes into the public_html but just want to make sure:

Also within my htaccess file already I have a "SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5" set, shall i include the following code below it: Is it all correct? cheers

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} .RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://([^.]+\.)?safwebdesigners\.com [NC]RewriteRule ^(.*)/[^/]+/[^.]+\.xls$ http://www.safwebdesigners.com/$1/ [NC,R=302,L]

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That's not correct. Each needs to be on its own line:

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.safwebdesigners.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://safwebdesigners.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

That's if you don't want to have www in the domain name.

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This is the code I put in a while ago:

SetEnv DEFAULT_PHP_VERSION 5

Options +FollowSymlinks

RewriteEngine on

rewritecond %{http_host} ^safwebdesigners.com [nc]

rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.safwebdesigners.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

And it seems to work, but it has nc at the end whats the difference between NC and L and Options + FollowSymlinks ?

Also do I need to protect the .htaccess currently at 644 default. does it need privalages for security

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Or you could google to find out :).

But

L = Last rule

NC = Case insensitive

To enable the rewriting engine for per-directory configuration files you need to set ``RewriteEngine On'' in these files and ``Options FollowSymLinks'' must be enabled. If your administrator has disabled override of FollowSymLinks for a user's directory, then you cannot use the rewriting engine. This restriction is needed for security reasons.
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Thanks for your help very much appreciated!

1 last thing are my meta tags correct

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>SAF Web Designers | Professional, Affordable Web Design from ?149.99</title>
<meta name="version" content="v1" />
<meta name="description" content="Custom built web design and solutions at affordable prices, designed by our expert designers " />
<meta name="keywords" content="Web design, website design, web designers, web development, Content management systems, CMS, ecommerce solutions, ecommerce, hosting, professional, saf, web based solutions, website, software packages, security, innovative, design" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, nofollow, NOODP" />
<meta name="author" content="SAF Web Designers" />
<meta name="language" content="EN" />
<meta name="Classification" content="Website Design Company" />
<meta name="copyright" content="www.safwebdesigners.com" />
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

You can see on this line "<meta name="robots" content="NOODP, index, nofollow" />" I used the noodp along with index page and no follow links. Structured like this above will it work. Google has recently updatated the cache but not any of the <meta name="description"> or <title> information.

Meta tag analyser says all is fine! Strange! or maybe just have to wait a month or so!

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Why would you want nofollow on all links?

Reason being, only needing the index page to be indexed within google.

I really should be a little more patient, as from past experience the indexing process can take months

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Or maybe you should real a little bit on Google. It doesn't take months to get your website indexed. :blink: This neowin thread came up within minutes on Google after you created it, lol.

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Or maybe you should real a little bit on Google. It doesn't take months to get your website indexed. :blink: This neowin thread came up within minutes on Google after you created it, lol.

Neowin has alot of traffic no wonder, pages are indexed almost instantly

hopefully giving time, it will improve. Maybe 1 week should do the trick.

Funny thing happening now every day or so the website description seems to have changed look: http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&source=hp&q=site%3A+www.safwebdesigners.com

with "site: www.safwebdesigners.com"

Now in google try http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&safe=off&q=saf+web+designers with "saf web designers"

It's really strange, google is confused or maybe its me contantly, updating the index.html fileqqq

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Hi if possible mod can this thread be deleted now. Problems are all sorted

It's coming up in google search!!

Thanks

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