{"id":275,"date":"2007-07-05T09:20:12","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T23:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2007\/07\/05\/www-vs-non-www-301-redirect\/"},"modified":"2010-02-27T10:48:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T00:48:03","slug":"www-vs-non-www-301-redirect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eisabainyo.net\/weblog\/2007\/07\/05\/www-vs-non-www-301-redirect\/","title":{"rendered":"www vs. non-www 301 redirect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you would like to force all your incoming URLs to have www at the front for SEO reasons, create an .htaccess file with the following content in the root directory of your website.<\/p>\n<p><code>RewriteEngine on<br \/>\nRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com [NC]<br \/>\nRewriteRule ^(.*)$ http:\/\/www.example.com\/$1 [L,R=301]<\/code><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is 301 redirect?<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for webpage redirection. 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