Do you refer website visitors to a page called www.boatsgalore/woodenboats/oarstomatch . URL’s of that length or longer are sometimes broken in advertisements and emails. You may have an affiliate link www.discountboatprices/yourname. . This link is easily altered. Someone could replace yourname with therename and take you out to he picture Or the yourname suffix could be removed and any business conducted would be between the company and not you. You can easily redirect a link.
Problems like those above can be addressed in a number of ways. One of the simplest and quickest way is to use an online link cloaking service. TinyURLDOTcom has been a popular link shrinker for a few years. BudUrlDOTcom is also available. Bud URL also has a click tracking service. Customized links are available from both sites. TinyURLDOTcom/custom. There are more link shrinker sites available.
( be sure and put a period in place of DOT),
While link shrinker sites give you a very quick and painless redirect, consider that those redirects remain working only as long as that particular stays online. The redirect sites could also change their policy and possible charge for redirects or direct their business in other directions. I am not saying any of the above would happen, but, it could. All your promotions with that shrunk URL in it is now no longer a working link.
Another way to redirect a link that has been popular with webmasters savvy with html is the HTML redirect. Some times this is referred to as META refresh. Here is the code:
yourpage
content+”0;url+http://www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-toDOTcom”>
Optional page text here.
The part that does the redirecting is content+”0;url+http://www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-toDOTcom”> (use a period in place of DOT)
The zero previous to the url is the number of seconds to wait previous to redirecting. This can be any number of seconds to your choosing.
A further popula rway to redirect a link is the 301 redirect using .htaccess. . A .htacess redirect is recommended as it is convenient to manage as it can be used to redirect one page or an entire website. The code is added to the .htacess file.
I am going to direct you to a site that provides a lot of discussion and examples, www.tamingthebeastDOTnet/articles3/spiders-301-redirect.htm Replace the DOT in above url with a period.
Most web hosts can provide a redirect link. If you plot to stay with your web host this is a further excellent way to provide a redirect.
The above listed ways to redirect a link are not the only ways to provide a redirect, but, these should take care of the needs of most of us. They all are useful. The website url air force may not be a excellent choice for a long term cloak or redirect. Due to the ease of obtaining them, there use in a fleeting term need is hard to beat. Especially the one with a click tacking service. The HTML redirect or the META refresh as it is sometimes referred to is still a excellent way to redirect. It is a small more involved that the .htacces or even the php redirect. The php redirect is a further excellent way. For me anyhow it involves a greater degree of difficulty.
The most standard way to redirect a link with webmasters seems to be the .htaccess redirect.
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How to Redirect a Link
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010Redirect Affiliate Program Links for Maximum Effectiveness
Thursday, January 14th, 2010If you promote an affiliate program and are not redirecting your affiliate links, you may be missing out on traffic and commissions opportunities. Redirecting your affiliate program links helps to lessen spam filtering of your email campaigns, increase the acceptance of article submissions, build backlinks to your site, and reduce “click dread”.Lessen Spam FilteringIf you are promoting an affiliate program through email, other (unscrupulous) affiliates of the same company may be indirectly hurting the delivery rate of your messages. Email filters will block messages that contain content or links associated with spam. Even if you send your message only to subscribers who have dual opted-in to your list, your messages may still be blocked if it contains a URL used by spammers.Search Engine OptimizationMost affiliate program URLs look a touch like http://www.example.com/?id=123. Unfortunately, most search engines have limited or no ability to read these links.Google(TM) warns, “If you choose to use dynamic pages (i.e., the URL contains a “?” character), be aware that not every search engine spider crawls dynamic pages as well as static pages. It helps to keep the parameters fleeting and the number of them few.” Google goes on to tell us “Don’t use “&id=” as a parameter in your URLs, as we don’t include these pages in our index.”Furthermore, if you are publishing your affiliate link on other sites such as blogs, forums, etc., you are missing out on the opportunity to build valuable backlinks that could increase your search engine rankings.Article SubmissionsSubmitting articles to web publishers and article directories is a powerful way to build backlinks to your site. Unfortunately, many publishers and directories do not accept articles that include affiliate links. But, virtually all will accept links to your own site. By replacing your affiliate link with a link to your own site, even one that redirects to your affiliate link, you will increase the number of article submissions accepted by publishers and directories.Reduce “Click Dread”Thanks to those few sites on the Web that distribute adware, spyware, viruses, etc., many web users are fearful of clicking on links, especially those that look “suspicious”. To the average user who has no special knowledge of the internal workings of the Web, a link that has “scarce” characters such as those in dynamic URLs (e.g. http://www.example.com/?id=123&sub=456) will appear less trustworthy than a static link.How to Redirect Your Affiliate Program URLThere are several ways to redirect your affiliate program links. The most “search engine friendly” method is the 301 Stable redirect with the .htaccess file. You can use this method if your site is hosted on an Apache (Linux, Unix) based server.To make a stable redirect, open (or make) the .htaccess file. On a single line add the following code to the file:redirect 301 /example.html http://www.example.com/?id=123&sub=456This code tells the server to redirect “http://www.yoursite.com/example.html” to your affiliate link “http://www.example.com/?id=123&sub=456″.Other methods of redirecting include using PHP’s header() function and HTML’s meta refresh.No topic what affiliate program you’re promoting, you will benefit by redirecting your links. Redirecting your affiliate links can improve the delivery rate of your email campaigns as well as increase CTR. Your articles may be more readily accepted by article directories and web publishers. Furthermore, redirecting replaces links to your merchant with valuable backlinks to your own site.
Different Ways To Redirect Visitors To Any URL You Want
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010URL redirection can be used for many purposes. Maybe you have just went the content of a webpage to a further webpage or domain and you want to redirect the frequent visitors of your website to the new webpage involuntarily. The knowledge of practice of redirecting URL is also useful if you want to shorten a long affiliate URL.
Not more than are several ways you can use to redirect visitors to any URL you want:
- Using Meta Tag
The tag for doing it is:
META http-equiv = “refresh” content = “0; URL = anydomain.com/destination.html”
Just place the tag above between the HEAD and /HEAD tags in a webpage. That way, when a name visits the webpage that contains the tag, he will be redirected to destination.html involuntarily. Don’t forget to include the “http” protocol which has been omitted.
In order to find out how many visitors have been redirected you may try to replace the destination URL with a tracking URL.
- Using PHP code
In PHP, “Header” is a built-in function that is evenly used to accomplish this task. This function can be used to redirect visitors depending on a specific condition. For instance, you can use this function to redirect a name to a webpage after submitting his right username and password.
Here is the code:
header(”Place: anydomain.com/destination.php”);
where destination.php is the destination URL.
Keep in mind that you have to save the file with .php extension in order to make it works.
- Using the redirect URL facility from your hosting service
Many web hosting air force provide a facility that you can use to redirect pages of your site to any url you want. This way, you only have to fill the source and the destination URL in a blank form and hit the submit button.
- .htaccess
You can also use your .htaccess file for this purpose as long as the hosting company you are using allows you to access this file. The code not more than will redirect visitors from oldpage.html to newpage.html.
Redirect /directory/oldpage.html anydomain.com/directory/newpage.html
Just place the code in your .htaccess file.
Now, how if you want to show a URL without using .html or .php extension? First, place the Meta Tag or the PHP code above in a file and name it as index.html or index.php. Then make a subdomain and upload the file into it. When a name visits the subdomain, he will be redirected to the destination URL.
There are really other techniques of redirecting URL with different advantages and disadvantages. For instance, with Domain Forwarding you can forward your domain name to a URL. Domain Masking that looks similar with Domain Forwarding can hide a URL with your own domain name so the real URL will not be showed in the address bar of your visitor’s browser.
Whatever practice of url redirect you intend to use, permanently choose the one that would best fit your needs.
How to do a 301 redirect
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010Ever wonder about duplicate content? did you know you could be your own most terrible enemy?
Lets talk about search engines and How to do a 301 Redirect (to get better rankings)
Search Engines that index pages on your site such as Google does~ sometimes use the “www” (and sometimes they don’t) Try doing a search your domain name with and without the “www” you will most likely get different results.
The concern is, some search engines consider this to be duplicate content. Duplicate Content can (will) affect your page ranking in the search results. There is a total list of SEO science belonging to duplicate content, but that’s a discussion for a further day.
So, how do you do a 301 Redirect? It’s really reasonably simple:
1. Find or make a text file called .htaccess on your server. Your .htaccess file gives search engine robots instructions on security and redirects.
2. If you don’t have an .htaccess file on your server, you can easily make one using a text file. Name it “.htaccess”
3. If the file is by now there, open it and scroll down to the bottom (past any code by now there) and type your new redirect instructions.
4. Type in your redirect information,
It should look like this example not more than:
redirect 301 /directory/file.html http://www.domainame.com/directory/file.html
*Note: The first half section “/directory/file.html” is the place of the file being went and the second section ”http://www.domainame.com/directory/file.html” is where the file is being went to. Obviously you want to use your own domain name information~ HA
5. Upload this file to your server. That’s it. Now you’re on your way to higher rankings.
301 Redirect – The SEO way to rename or move files or folders
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
In this article I will discuss page redirection techniques, what works and what to avoid.
What is page redirection and why would you want to use it?
Let’s say you rename a page on your website, for whatever reason. Perhaps you chose to revamp your entire naming caucus, perhaps you chose to restructure your site and need to go pages into different folders, or you just realized that you are missing valuable keywords.
Let’s elaborate a bit on the keywords issue, since it is part of your search engine ranking success.
Let’s say the page in question is about customized USB drives and you named it page1.htm. Then you read some SEO (Search Engine Optimization) articles and you found out that some search engines use words in the actual file name as search keywords. Next time you do a Google search, take a look at the results, most will have words in the actual file name (in the URL section) bolded, denoting a keyword match. Your USB drives page will certainly benefit if named a touch like custom_usb_drives.htm instead.
Now that you renamed your page, you just produced a symphony of issues for yourself, for your users and for your spot in search engine results.
Between issues:
You will have to point every link on your site to the new page name. If your site is small, it should not be a huge deal, but if your site is large, you will inevitably make mistakes, mainly forgetting a link or two. This will result in visitors getting the dreaded “404 page not found” error when clicking on your links, robots (also know as crawlers or spiders) avoiding you, etc. Also, if you are heavily relying on visitors from search engines, then again, people will get a “404 page not found error”.
Let’s use the previous example, for a long time your page1.htm was indexed by major search engines. If a name types “custom usb drives” in a search engine box, your page shows up on the first search results screen. That is fantastic, only if a name clicks on the link, they will be pointed to page1.htm, not to custom_usb_drives.htm, because the first page is the one in the search engine’s index. It will take time, sometimes months, previous to the search engines update their indexes with your new page name.
Lost Page Rank (PR) issues:
Google urban a proprietary algorithm that assigns a Page Rank (PR) to every page on the web. PR is a number from 1 to 10 (10 being the ultimate) and is intended to be a representation of how useful and standard a given page is. PR is influenced by many factors, one of the crucial ones being Link Popularity. Link Popularity is a representation of how many “feature” or “relevant” sites link to your page. Without getting into too much detail, it is increasingly hard and time consuming to achieve a high PR for your pages, especially if you don’t have a really unique website with exceptional and highly required after content. If you are merely operating a commercial site, in a competitive market (such as selling custom branded USB drives, as in our example), then it takes a lot of time and hard work to build a excellent page PR.
When you rename a page and discard the ancient page, you also discard the PR of the page. Your renamed page will be seen as a perfectly new page, with 0 PR.
What is the solution?
I will start by enumerating some of the methods used by the non-initiated.
Not recommended solution 1: Duplicate content.
First thing that probably comes in you mind is: well, why can’t you just duplicate the page and let nature take its course. In other words, you will have two identical pages, one named page1.htm and one custom_usb_drives.htm. This gives you time to update all links and the search engines will ultimately index the new page.
This solution is not viable because search engines will penalize you reasonably terribly, ‘thinking’ that you are trying to scam them by using the ‘duplicate content’ practice.
Not recommended solution 2: Custom error message.
You could make a custom error page. But, you will lose rankings on the next search engine update as the file will appear to be non-surviving. As discussed above, it could be some time previous to the page with the new name will be indexed and will appear in people’s searches. Also, your web site visitors will be frustrated by the fact that they now have to dig through your site to find the desired information.
Not recommended solution 3: An HTML Meta redirect.
You could implement a so called Meta refresh in a blank or customized page that has the name of the ancient page (in our example, page1.htm) that points to the new page. The redirect can be instant, or delayed by a predetermine amount of time. The delayed redirect has the advantage that you can place an extra message, such as “please be aware that the page you are looking for changed place….. etc., etc…. you will be redirected involuntarily to the new place”
In the past, this was probably the most used practice.
Without getting into the mechanics of the Meta redirect, which is in the end a META tag statement you ad to your HEADER section, know that there are also JavaScript techniques that achieve similar results.
What is terrible about this is that this is a practice evenly used by spammers to trick search engines and it should be avoided, unless the page is in a section of your site that isn’t indexed (also known as spidered or crawled). Search engine spammers make a page that is optimized for certain keywords and phrases – it usually has no real content. The page is then picked up by some search engines, but when a visitor clicks on the search engine entry, they are redirected to a further site, evenly unrelated. Most search engines have filters to notice this. Using this form of search engine deception will see a site ultimately banned or penalized by major players such as Google.
The recommended redirect strategy – 301 Redirect
A 301 redirect is the most well-organized, visitor friendly, robot (spider, crawler) friendly and search engine friendly solution around for web sites that are hosted on servers running Apache. If you are not sure, check with your hosting provider.
A 301 redirect is just a set of commands you type into your .htaccess file.
When a visitor (whether human or robotic) requests a web page via any means, your web server checks for a .htaccess file. The .htaccess file contains specific instructions for certain requests, including security, redirection issues and how to handle certain errors.
The code “301″ is interpreted as “went permanently”. After the code, the URL of the missing or renamed page is noted, followed by a space, then followed by the new place or file name.
First of all, you’ll need to find the .htaccess file in the root directory of where all your web pages are stored. If there is no .htaccess file there, you can make one with Notepad or a similar application. Make sure when you name the file that you remember to place the “.” at the beginning of the file name. This file has no tail extension.
Some hosting providers place forward redirect air force through their “control panels”, so you don’t have to perform low amount changes on the .htaccess file itself. Instead, they provide a user friendly interface for this. Check with your hosting provider to see what the optimal way to perform a 301 redirect is in your case. I will take up again the article with the barebones solution.
If there is a .htaccess file by now in existence with lines of code present, be very careful not to exchange any existing line unless you are familiar with the functions of the file.
Scroll down past all the existing code, leave a line space, then make a new line that follows this example:
redirect 301 /folder/page1.htm http://www.you.com/folder/custom_usb_drives.htm
It’s as simple as that. Save the file, upload it back into your web and test it out by typing in the ancient address to the page you’ve changed. You should be instantly and seamlessly transported to the new place.
Notes: Be sure not to add “http://www” to the first part of the statement – just place the path from the top amount of your site to the page. Also ensure that you leave a single space between these elements:
redirect 301 (the education that the page has went)
/folder/page1.htm (the original folder path and file name)
http://www.you.com/folder/custom_usb_drives.htm (new path and file name)
The same format applies not only to renamed files, but also to files went to a different place.
The 301 redirect is the safest way to preserve your rankings. On the next indexing (crawling, spidering), the search engine robot will obey the rule indicated in your .htaccess file and index the new page name every time a link or its internal database tries to access the ancient page. In the next update (again, this could take months), the ancient file name and path will be dropped and replaced with the new one. Sometimes you may see alternating ancient/new file names during the transition period, along with some possible fluctuations in rankings as things descend. Don’t panic, this is habitual.
What if your site is hosted on a Microsoft IIS server instead?
If you have access to the server, do this: In internet air force manager, right click on the file or folder you wish to redirect. Select the radio titled “a redirection to a URL”. Penetrate the redirection page, check “The exact url entered above” and the “A stable redirection for this resource”. Click “Apply”.
If you do not have access to the server, question your host to point you into the right management.
In close, the best and the most transparent way (to both human and robotic users) to rename and go files on your web site, while preserving your search engine ranks is the 301 redirect.
Beginers guide to redirecting page using 301 redirect
Monday, December 28th, 2009In this article I will discuss page redirection techniques, what works and what to avoid.
Article Body:
Must read information about site redirection techniques, how it works and what factors to avoid.
What is page redirection and why you should use it in your site?
Let’s say you rewrite a webpage on your website, for making that webpage SEO friendly. As it make strong impression on theme of your webpage and its link popularity factors etc and you wish to insert keywords for improving visibility in the eyes of search engines and human readers.
Let’s take an example and elaborate the topic
Let’s say the page in question is about free SEO analysis of website and I named it page5.htm. Then when I read text in that page and I found out that Search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc use words or phrases in the actual file name as search keywords. Next time when i do a Google search after modified my webpage making it SEO friendly, when I search query regarding SEO analysis of website in Google then I found that my website SEO Spidy is listing in top result. As modifying my webpage and its Meta description and I bold certain keyword in it benefits me as top listing in Google. If you practice same thing then it will benefit to your webpage too.
Questions come in your mind about between
You will have to point every link on your site to the new page name. If your site is small, then you can manage it easily but when your website is huge portal and have 1000 of pages and pages are produced dynamically then its major issue because more than 75 % make mistakes like making duplicate content pages, stable redirection not found, link rel tag not found, generating broken links etc. This will result in many factors like your site may stay long in Google sandbox for content penalty, visitors getting “404 page not found” error when clicking on your links, demotion in search engine for many keywords of your website etc.
Let’s use the previous example, for a long time my page is page5.html was indexed by major search engines. If a name types “Free seo analysis of website” in a search engine box, my page shows up on the second search results screen. But when I update it as Free-seo-analysis-of- website.html then it make strong impression as my website is listing top 3 result in first page of search result. This make a strong impression as search engine update my listing by cache it and remove obsolete page5.html
Lost Page Rank (PR) issues:
Google urban a proprietary algorithm that assigns a Page Rank (PR) to every page on the web. PR is a number from 1 to 10 (10 being the ultimate) and is intended to be a representation of how useful and standard a given page is. PR is influenced by many factors, one of the crucial ones being Link Popularity. Link Popularity is a representation of how many “feature” or “relevant” sites link to your page. Without getting into too much detail, it is increasingly hard and time consuming to achieve a high PR for your pages, especially if you don’t have a really unique website with exceptional and highly required after content. When you rename a page and discard the ancient page, you also discard the PR of the page. Your renamed page will be seen as a perfectly new page, with 0 PR.
What is the solution?
I will start by enumerating some of the methods used by the non-initiated.
Not recommended solution 1: Duplicate content.
First thing that probably comes in your mind is: well, why can’t I just duplicate the page and let nature take its course. In other words, I will have two identical pages, one named page5.html and Free-SEO-Analysis-of-website.html. This gives me time to update all links and the search engines will ultimately index the new page.
But unfortunately this solution is not viable because search engines will penalize my site reasonably terribly, ‘thinking’ right that I am are trying to scam them by using the ‘duplicate content’ practice.
Not recommended solution 2: Custom error message.
If i could make a custom error page. But, I will lose rankings on the next search engine update as the file will appear to be non-surviving. As discussed above, it could be some time previous to the page with the new name will be indexed and will appear in people’s searches. Also, your web site visitors will be frustrated by the fact that they now have to dig through your site to find the desired information.
Not recommended solution 3: An HTML Meta redirect.
You could implement a so called Meta refresh in a blank or customized page that has the name of the ancient page (in our example, page5.html) that points to the Free-seo-analysis-of-website.html webpage. The redirect can be instant, or delayed by a predetermine amount of time. The delayed redirect has the advantage that you can place an extra message, such as “please be aware that the page you are looking for changed place….. etc., etc…. you will be redirected involuntarily to the new place”
In the past, this was probably the most used practice.
Without getting into the mechanics of the Meta redirect, which is in the end a META tag statement you add to your HEADER section, know that there are also JavaScript techniques that achieve similar results.
What is terrible about this is that this is a practice evenly used by spammers to trick search engines and it should be avoided, unless the page is in a section of your site that isn’t indexed (also known as spidered or crawled). Search engine spammers make a page that is optimized for certain keywords and phrases – it usually has no real content. The page is then picked up by some search engines, but when a visitor clicks on the search engine entry, they are redirected to a further site, evenly unrelated. Most search engines have filters to notice this. Using this form of search engine deception will see a site ultimately banned or penalized by major search giant such as Google, Bing, Yahoo.
The recommended redirect strategy – 301 Redirect
A 301 redirect is the most well-organized, visitor friendly, robot (spider, crawler) friendly and search engine friendly solution around for web sites that are hosted on servers running Apache. If you are not sure, check with your hosting provider.
A 301 redirect is just a set of commands you type into your .htaccess file.
When a visitor (whether human or robotic) requests a web page via any means, your web server checks for a .htaccess file. The .htaccess file contains specific instructions for certain requests, including security, redirection issues and how to handle certain errors.
The code “301″ is interpreted as “went permanently”. After the code, the URL of the missing or renamed page is noted, followed by a space, then followed by the new place or file name.
First of all, you’ll need to find the .htaccess file in the root directory of where all your web pages are stored. If there is no .htaccess file there, you can make one with Notepad or a similar application. Make sure when you name the file that you remember to place the “.” at the beginning of the file name. This file has no tail extension.
Some hosting providers place forward redirect air force through their “control panels”, so you don’t have to perform low amount changes on the .htaccess file itself. Instead, they provide a user friendly interface for this. Check with your hosting provider to see what the optimal way to perform a 301 redirect is in your case. I will take up again the article with the barebones solution.
If there is a .htaccess file by now in existence with lines of code present, be very careful not to exchange any existing line unless you are familiar with the functions of the file.
Scroll down past all the existing code, leave a line space, then make a new line that follows this example:
redirect 301 /folder/page5.html http://www.Seospidy.com/folder/Free-seo-analysis-of-website.html
It’s as simple as that. Save the file, upload it back into your web and test it out by typing in the ancient address to the page you’ve changed. You should be instantly and seamlessly transported to the new place.
Notes: Be sure not to add “http://www” to the first part of the statement – just place the path from the top amount of your site to the page. Also ensure that you leave a single space between these elements:
redirect 301 (the education that the page has went)
/folder/page5.html (the original folder path and file name)
http://www.seospidy.com/folder/Free-seo-analysis-of-website.html (new path and file name)
The same format applies not only to renamed files, but also to files went to a different place.
The 301 redirect is the safest way to preserve your rankings. On the next indexing (crawling, spidering), the search engine robot will obey the rule indicated in your .htaccess file and index the new page name every time a link or its internal database tries to access the ancient page. In the next update (again, this could take months), the ancient file name and path will be dropped and replaced with the new one. Sometimes you may see alternating ancient/new file names during the transition period, along with some possible fluctuations in rankings as things descend. Don’t panic, this is habitual.
What if your site is hosted on a Microsoft IIS server instead?
If you have access to the server, do this: In internet air force manager, right click on the file or folder you wish to redirect. Select the radio titled “a redirection to a URL”. Penetrate the redirection page, check “The exact url entered above” and the “A stable redirection for this resource”. Click “Apply”.
If you do not have access to the server, question your host to point you into the right management.
In close, the best and the most transparent way (to both human and robotic users) to rename and go files on your web site, while preserving your search engine ranks is the 301 redirect.
Redirect Using Search Friendly 301
Thursday, December 24th, 2009The .htaccess file can seem daunting, especially when it comes to implementing 301 search engine friendly stable redirects.Not any longer.Why implement them in the first place, well it’s better to have your website indexed under one canonical name than two or even three.How does this come about? In your root folder the homepage is normally marked ‘index.html, index.php &c, so what happens is this, when you click on the homepage link of your website instead of reading: www.mywebsite.com, you get: www.mywebsite.com/index.html; Google also sees this and really indexes the two differently, even though they are exactly the same pages. This isn’t so terrible until your back-links start to get affected – there’s nothing worse than having the /index.html page hogging more of the links than the .com only page.But that’s not all, what about sites having two TLDs (top amount domain), for example: .co.uk & .com, you want the search engines to index both of these the same don’t you? Likewise when a name links back to your site without the ‘www’, I presume you want these also to count under your one chosen TLDNow I’m no website programmer, but I have managed to implement the said 301 redirects using a really simple bit of code that you pop into your .htaccess file. I say simple, all three use ‘fixed expressions’, but you don’t really have to do the tutorial, just copy and paste.But as with all changes to your root folder, do ensure you’ve saved the lot previous to you carry out any changes; errors are hard to undo!301 redirect .co.uk to .comRewriteEngine OnRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mywebsite.co.uk$RewriteRule (.*) http://mywebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]You only have to type in the ‘RewriteEngine On’ once.301 redirect non www to wwwRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]301 redirect index.html to just the domain: www.mywebsite.comRewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.html?RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html?$ http://www.mywebsite.com/$1 [R=301,L]Remember to replace the ‘mywebsite’ with the name of your website.End product, after implementing all three 301 stable redirects, you’ve a website rendering under one roof that has nothing to confuse the search engine spiders or your potential customers with.