Hello,

I would like to ask for help please.

I'm an amateur at web design and struggle with keeping up with SEO protocol.

Our page rank has never been that good despite efforts and tonight I read about something called canonical urls.

The post said that the best way to remedy this was to put the commands into ht.access

bascially I want to do this

redirect all requests for:

//mysite.co.uk
www.mysite.co.uk/index.html
//mysite.co.uk/index.html

to

http://www.mysite.co.uk

Am I getting this??, sorry if I sound thick, anybody with children under 5 will understand where I'm coming from.

Should I be doing this ??, Ive never heard about it before, any posts I find seem complicated.

My .htaccess currently says this, which I'm guessing is for frontpage, do I need to put new commands directly above or below this

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.cyclestaffordshire.co.uk
AuthUserFile /home/virtual/site90/fst/var/www/html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/virtual/site90/fst/var/www/html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Thanks for your time, it is appreciated and really helps

Saffron

if you are using FP to edit and upload your pages you won't be able to also use .htaccess for redirection. FP will overwrite it each time with it's own version.

but don't worry about it, your site isn't showing any canonical issues. if YOU are consistent with your links it will never become an issue.

ignore pagerank it means nothing.

Thanks Chris, Thats a relief,

I use smartftp to upload, but do some editing with frontpage because my husband like it.

If you have time, just out of interest, how do you know that I don't have canonical issues?

Cheers again - I can relax and watch BB now.

use a site:sitename search with both the www version and the non-www version, if you get differing results you potentially have a problem.
Not conclusive of course but a good pointer.