Comments on: Canonicalization: The Gospel of HTTP 301

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How Google handles 301 Permanent Redirects | The Other Bloke's Blog — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:02:07 +0000

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By: Hamlet Batista

Hamlet Batista — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:33:03 +0000

Good to know that you are not afraid to ask

By: Paul Montwill

Paul Montwill — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:27:43 +0000

Thanks for the post, Hamlet. I like your theory about one person asking a question. Usually I was the one in the class that kept asking

By: markus941

markus941 — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:58:44 +0000

Thank you!

By: Hamlet Batista

Hamlet Batista — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 23:04:35 +0000

markus941,

Here is your rule:

RedirectMatch 301 ^/(.*)/$ http://sitename.com/$1

By: markus941

markus941 — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 20:08:34 +0000

I recently noticed that Google has both versions of my site and versions of my posts indexed with a slash and also without.

Do you know how to write a rule that makes sure that nothing has a slash behind it?

By: Hamlet Batista

Hamlet Batista — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:48:29 +0000

Jason – Thanks for the link. I will check that plugin out

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:19:08 +0000

Mod_Rewrite is certianly the way to go, and will offer the most flexibility when solving problems like this. However, for WordPress users that might not want to edit their .htaccess file or update the mod_rewrite module can get away with using Justin Shattuck's WWW Redirect Plugin. It's dead simple and can solve this problem with just a few clicks.

By: Hamlet Batista

Hamlet Batista — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:24:26 +0000

Mutiny,
There is another post coming shortly that will answer your question.

Sorry about the image, my designer was not in in time to include one.

By: Mutiny Design

Mutiny Design — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:34:01 +0000

I noticed you were doing this and realised I was not doing it myself…

I notice a lot of sites out on the internet that suffer from this, particularly when the link to the homepage goes to a /index.php page with no pagerank. Decent programmers seem not to fall for this one, but you rearly see a site that redirects http:// to http://www. or vice versa.

How damaging do you think it can be not to do this?

No nice image with this post.