Hi,
I'm new to all this and am just learning as i go...
I'm setting up my first site which is www. portumna .net
My domain is accessible through both http:// www. portumna .net and http:// portumna .net. It is appearing in google as both seperately under different search terms and the same thing seems to be happening in yahoo.
I have been advised to do a 301 redirect from http:// portumna .net to http:// www. portumna .net to avoid any potential problems with search engine rankings.
However, the site is using shared hosting on a windows server with the HELM control panel and i have been told i can't do the redirect i need to on this system. The support for the hosting company said all they could do is disable the non www domain so that only the correct one will be active.
This sounds OK to me but i just wanted to check with people that have experience with this kind of thing..
Thanks in advance.
P.S. My site won't be completed for about another 4 weeks so i don't mind if i'm not in the rankings at all for a while. At the moment i just have a temporary homepage up so people will know i am working on it.
damoth
I'm new to all this and am just learning as i go...
I'm setting up my first site which is www. portumna .net
My domain is accessible through both http:// www. portumna .net and http:// portumna .net. It is appearing in google as both seperately under different search terms and the same thing seems to be happening in yahoo.
I have been advised to do a 301 redirect from http:// portumna .net to http:// www. portumna .net to avoid any potential problems with search engine rankings.
However, the site is using shared hosting on a windows server with the HELM control panel and i have been told i can't do the redirect i need to on this system. The support for the hosting company said all they could do is disable the non www domain so that only the correct one will be active.
This sounds OK to me but i just wanted to check with people that have experience with this kind of thing..
Thanks in advance.
P.S. My site won't be completed for about another 4 weeks so i don't mind if i'm not in the rankings at all for a while. At the moment i just have a temporary homepage up so people will know i am working on it.
damoth