Small Chages Can Make A BIG Difference In Your PR

If you want to build a successful Internet business, you must have pages with at least a modest PageRank (PR) and there are two ways to do that. Have only a FEW links leaving your page and have Lots Incoming links. Since you still want to lead your visitors (and the search engines) deeper into your site, it's very important to know how to structure the links within your site.

You'll also want to do something that most others don't even think or know about. Many website owners are actually diluting the PageRank of their sites because they're not making one simple adjustment. To stop the dilution of your PageRank, simply enter the following code into your .htaccess file (it should be in the public-html folder):
(ENTER THIS IN YOUR .htaccess file but make the changes with YOUR URL)
Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1/ [L,R=301]

IMPORTANT: Be sure to change yoursite.com to your own URL!

Why do you need to do this? Some of the links to your site will include the “www” and others won't and some will include a trailing slash “/” and others won't. It this is left untouched, the search engines will think there are 4 versions of the same page on your site and distribute PR to each version. This small change avoids that by forcing the non-www link to redirect to the “www” version - a small, but powerful change. This is a tip that will work if you're serious about driving traffic to your site.