Today, we are showing you a way to redirect your homepage url by removing the www from the front, and instead it will go like http://abc.com. There are few benefits of doing it like
- avoiding duplicate content in Google, but it’s not that rampange,
- split page rank and removing www from a site url makes it look cool.
To do it, you have to paste a code. Below is the code, paste it in .htaccess file found in “/public_html” directory.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.abc\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://abc.com/$1 [L,R=301]
Copy the code and paste it above # END WordPress, see the image above. Just replace the domain name.
If you want to read more about url-canonicalization, here is a excellent post written by Matt Cutts on the topic.
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