301 redirect

[ifdesigns]

I've been doing some research on creating a 301 redirect so if someone types in my website url as rvtwintrak.com, it will be redirected to www.rvtwintrak.com.

What I have found is that I need to add:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^rvtwintrak\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.rvtwintrak.com/$1 [R=permanent,L]

Can someone please verify that this is correct, and more importantly, where do I put it???

Thanks in advance

[CarbonTerry]

Re: 301 redirect

rvtwintrak.com is the same as www.rvtwintrak.com.
You can enter either in a browser and your website will appear.

[ifdesigns]

Re: 301 redirect

Thanks for the reply. I know that entering my domain with or without "www" goes to my website but I was hoping to improve my web ranking with google, etc. by doing the redirect. I guess I really don't know enough about it to persue it. Thanks again.

Dave

[CarbonTerry]

Re: 301 redirect

A 301 is for a name change. Lets say that you have a page that is www.xxxxx.com/blue.html and you need to change it to www.xxxxx.com/bluesocks.html but the old "blue" page is getting a lot of traffic.
That's when you need to do a 301 for the "blue" page.