.htaccess is driving me mad! Help please...

[irahat]

Hi all, I've posted something similar before but it never got resolved.

My site is dancing all over the place in the SERP's, it's more negative than positive and i am trying to resolve everything that could possibly be contributing to this, paranoia basically.

So...my site is predominantly a co.uk , i need to redirect all the .com visits to .co.uk , simple enough right? Well nothing i have tried works so far.

I also redirect all www to non-www , i have a feeling these 2 rules are somehow clashing??

Can someone please help me get this right?

[rsalan]

Are you referring to the domain on your signature? If so, I can see that it's redirected from www to non-wow and so I suppose you are using the following code

#Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{http_host} ^www.domain.co.uk
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://domain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]


And as for the case of your .com domain which you wanted to redirect to .co.uk

Try this code:

#Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.domain.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$
RewriteRule (.*)$ http://domain.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

note: just add .com domain to the same account where .co.uk domain is, and use above redirect.

[mshah]

Take it you have change:
rewritecond %{http_host} ^mysite.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.com/$1 [r=301,L]
TO
rewritecond %{http_host} ^mysite.co.uk [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.co.uk/$1 [r=301,L]
as you will only need to do that bit for the .co.uk as all the .com will be directed to the .co.uk with your other code.

This may help you http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... 3633&hl=en has a guide on redirects