How to redirect www vs. non-www in IIS
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I have been wanting to set our site up to redirect non-www to www for the SEO benefits so often described here on SeoMoz. I see a lot on Apache but not so much for IIS.
Is there any developers here that can point me to a how tutorial for people with little IIS experiences?
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Those tutorials well show you step by step just how easy it is.
If you dont have access to IIS control panel, it also has the code to put in web.config manualy
good luck -
I didn't know the difference, but yes we have IIS 7.
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Robs link is for IIS6, it is more likly you have IIS7, it is much easier you do redirects with IIS7, here a link for IIS7
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Hey KJ,
These are good read/resource to start :
http://www.mcanerin.com/en/articles/301-redirect-iis.asp
http://authoritylabs.com/blog/solving-canonical-problems/
Cheers, Rob
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