Permananet Redirect

Question

I have a domain, say www.example.com which is redirected to a website built in Google Sites. I don't want different search engines treat example.com as a different site from www.example.com. How do I make a permanent link between the two? My domain is under GoDaddy.

Answer 1

Use a canonical tag pointing to your preferred site. Crawlers that obey canonical links will not treat example.com as unique from www.example.com. Format of the link looks something like this:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/page.html" />

The link above will take you to the google webmaster blog entry for a better explanation that I'm providing :)