One of the things I found on WebsiteGrader was a section which said my incoming links were possibly being diluted, because some of the links were for www.websitecleanup.com and some were for plain old websitecleanup.com (without the www). The problem is, the search engines don’t know the difference, so the total incoming links appear to be lower than they really are. The solution is to automatically switch the non-www links into www links. I did a little research and found it’s very easy to do! All you have to do is add three lines to your .htaccess file. This is what I added for our site:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^websitecleanup\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.websitecleanup.com/$1 [R=301,L]

That’s it! We’re up and running, and now all of our inbound links will be counted properly. If you want this installed on your site, please contact us. Thanks!