Need Help of 200 status

Hi

I'm not sure if this is the right forum to place this topic, but it's as close as I could find.

Someone told me that my website is returning a 200 status for www. and non www. pages.

Does anyone know what that means, and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance.

You only want to get one version of the site indexed. The www and the non www version are seen as 2 sites with the same content.

The 200 status shows the search engines that the site is being correctly served. What you need tough is a 200 on only one version and a 301 on the other. Typically the non www version is redirected by way of a 301 redirect to the www version.

There are different ways of doing this depending on what platform you are hosted. What hosting platform are you on?

Hi

Thanks for a quick reply, and for helping me to understand! They told me what it was doing, but not what it meant!

What do you mean exactly by hosting platform?

Thanks, I appreciate it!

[ Message was edited by: cajuns 01/02/2007 01:35 pm ]

I need to know whether you are hosted on a Windows or Unix/Linux server.

IS it the site in your profile?

Oh, okay, sorry, yes it is the site in my profile.

Thanks

In that case you are hosted on Unix/Apache.

You need to locate (or create) on your server a file called .htaccess and add the following code:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^cajuncookingrecipes.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.cajuncookingrecipes.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Thanks so much. I wasn't quite sure on the code to add to that file. You have been a great help!

Thanks again
Cajuns