Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension: ASP Alliance

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Tip/Trick: Fix Common SEO Problems Using the URL Rewrite Extension

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by Scott Guthrie
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Article Contents:

Introduction
Measuring the SEO of your website with the Microsoft SEO Toolkit
Search Relevancy and URL Splitting
4 Really Common SEO Problems Your Sites Might Have
How to Easily Fix these SEO Problems in 10 minutes (or less) using IIS Rewrite
Try the Rule Out
Try the Rule Out
Try the Rule Out
4 Simple Rules for Improved SEO
Summary
Resources

Try the Rule Out

Now that we’ve saved the rule, let’s try it out on our site. Try the following two URLs on my site:

http://www.scottgu.com/albums.aspx

http://scottgu.com/albums.aspx

Notice that the first URL (which has the “www” prefix) now automatically does a redirect to the second URL which does not have the www prefix. Because it is a permanent redirect, search engines will follow the URL and update the page ranking.

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