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  Fenlandphil May 29, 2011 at 8:58pm

  Thanks for the link Geoffrey, I have tried it and it has come up with some useful suggestions.
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  Geoffrey King May 30, 2011 at 8:50am

  Hi Guys,

   

  One of the things it said on my report was that

  www.asking4gardening.co.uk and asking4gardening.co.uk were two different sites although the content was / is identical and that there should be a permanent re-direct.

  But I didn't know the other site existed, does anyone know anything about this?
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  Keith Barker May 30, 2011 at 11:43am

  In simple terms, your domain is asking4gardening.co.uk, and you have the subdomain www.asking4gardening.co.uk. Both of these are serving the same content, and as a consequence the search engine web crawlers will lower your rankings.

   

  To get better SEO rankings you should set up a 301 permanent redirect from the www subdomain to the main asking4gardening.co.uk domain. Ask your ISP how to do this.
  
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  Geoffrey King May 30, 2011 at 1:33pm

  Thanks Keith.

   

  It's at this point I have powerful urge to leave the computer and return to what I know best, the garden!

  
  
  Keith Barker said:

  In simple terms, your domain is asking4gardening.co.uk, and you have the subdomain www.asking4gardening.co.uk. Both of these are serving the same content, and as a consequence the search engine web crawlers will lower your rankings.

   

  To get better SEO rankings you should set up a 301 permanent redirect from the www subdomain to the main asking4gardening.co.uk domain. Ask your ISP how to do this.