Why Google (again) behaves like this?

[seachgeek]

Hi,
A year back i posted in this forum about Google showing 2 different PR for my website. It was as follows:

http://wwww.lavacards.com PR5
lavacards.com PR2

Few of the WebPro Members suggested me that Google sees 2 diff. URL's so this happens. They suggested me a 301 redirect through .htaccess

and my problem was solved. Then the second URL was redirected to the first one with "http://"

BUT,
Again after the Jagger update... the above site is showing 2 diff. URL's with 2 diff PR's. Thus my sites unique visits had also gone down (as it happened a year ago.)

Here is the .htaccess file i've uploaded:-

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^lavacards\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.lavacards.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Please let me know why Google (again) behaves like this??

Note: My other site 123lovecards.com dosent have 301 redirect.. but still shows PR4 for both type of URL's.

Reg,
Salil

[brian.mark]

How are you getting http://lavacards.com/ to show up? I automatically get redirected to http://www.lavacards.com/ and see the PR for that page.

Brian.

[seachgeek]

Originally Posted by brian.mark

How are you getting http://lavacards.com/ to show up? I automatically get redirected to http://www.lavacards.com/ and see the PR for that page.

Brian.

You R Correct, But when you have the PR check both URL's show different PR.

Is my 301 Redirect working correctly for G?

[aaron2005]

you are fine, if you have more people backlinking to www and less to the non "www" your pr will be more for the "www".

stop blaming google for everything...

[johnyfav]

Although I agree slightly aaron - I feel that tone is difficult to portray on a forum and that may sound a bit harsh.....

Yeah your redirect is working as stated.

I would say seachgeek is using something other than the toolbar to check PR?

Remember google will probably have a cache of your site without the www on it's servers or it fact it still rank lavacards.com as a PR of 2 as it saw them both as seperate domains in the first place?

Does that make sense?

[brian.mark]

It has usually taken them 3 - 6 months to get it totally straightened out for us when we added in 301's, and some of those old domains (been 301's for over 2 years now) are still in the supplemental results. It's nothing to get excited over. Most of your PR2 has been passed already, but if you specifically query a page they can't see they give you a result based on their old data.

Brian.

[seachgeek]

Hi,
though my 301 redirect seems working well.. plz look at the following 2 url's when u type in browser:

lavacards.com/sitemap.htm (here u will not shown the page) why?

http://lavacards.com/sitemap.htm (here also u will not shown the page) why?

ONLY if you type www.lavacards.com/sitemap.htm THEN AND THEN ONLY u get re-directed to http://www.lavacards.com/sitemap.htm

Can u explain me this problem.

thnx.

[brian.mark]

This isn't working either: http://lavacards.com/birthday/birthd..._greetings.htm

It appears to be dropping the / after the .com. It appears you need to escape the / in the rewrite rule. Give that a try (add a \ before the /, as in the following):

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^lavacards\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.lavacards.com\/$1 [L,R=301]

I haven't seen that needed before, but then again who knows. mod_rewrite seems to work differently on some machines.

Brian.

[seachgeek]

Originally Posted by brian.mark

This isn't working either: http://lavacards.com/birthday/birthd..._greetings.htm

It appears to be dropping the / after the .com. It appears you need to escape the / in the rewrite rule. Give that a try (add a \ before the /, as in the following):

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^lavacards\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.lavacards.com\/$1 [L,R=301]

I haven't seen that needed before, but then again who knows. mod_rewrite seems to work differently on some machines.

Brian.

Brian. The above re-direct is not working. giving same error

[seachgeek]

Now i've dropped all code frm .htaccess, i've dis-continued using .htaccess file. BUT, still my pages get re-directed as the lavacards.com to http://www.lavacards.com

strange :)