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Old 07-01-2009, 04:47 PM   #9 (permalink)
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With www and without www versions
You need to put a 301 permanent redirect in place pointing the non www version to the with www version (as you said above you want to promote with www).

On a Apache server this is done in the .htaccess file (as explained in the article linked above).

On Window servers there seems to be a problem making it clear to the web hosting company that it MUST be a permanent 301 redirect.

The instructions I found so far for a Windows server appear to be for the actual server (which you probably don't have access to).

Ask the hosting company how to do this/get them to do it.

Once told it's been done, check the headers to see that they have in fact used a 301 permanent redirect.
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