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Old 12-12-2008, 05:45 PM  
leek
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Originally Posted by marcjacob View Post
Leek: I kind of half understand what your saying, just to be clear, should every wordpress blog do the 301 thing you suggest then?
Actually, I believe the latest version(s) of Wordpress do something similar to this already (because they realize how important it is).

Try this to see if you're all set:
  1. Pull up your browser and goto http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php
  2. Keep an eye on your address bar, if you notice that you get autoforwarded to http://www.yourdomain.com then most likely your site is already doing a 301 redirect.

The .htaccess snippet I gave should mainly be used for sites that have a DirectoryIndex of index.html, index.htm, or index.php. It is a very simple change that probably won't have that drastic of an affect. But when it comes to SEO, every little bit helps.
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