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Tip: Canonical Domain Security

Google Bowling attacks are a sneaky way to bring down a site in the Google search results. Spammers have found that if you link to a domain heavily without the www. the url will suffer greatly. Speculation that a duplicate penalty causes the fall and even Matt Cutts a Google Engineer has hinted that Google Bowling is a problem and should be reported. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/bacon-polenta/

It’s quite easy to Secure your canonical domain using mod rewrite if you are on an Apache Server so here is our tip of the day. Just make all non www. versions of your domain name 301 redirect to the www. version of your domain and the problem is solved.

Add this to your .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /


	
#for ssl
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]


	
#for non ssl
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]



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