Genesis Custom Canonical URI Settings

[Tim.S]

Greetings:

I've read through the documentation looking at what is recommended for populating the, Custom Canonical URI field.

My assumption is, this field is meant for:

1. Tell the search engines the preferred location of the URL. For example, ugly url to pretty url

or

2. In the case of managing possible duplicate content

Now for my situation.

First, here is the website. www.sledtrack.com

In this case, I really don't have duplicate content. (well, at least I dont think so)

The preferred url would simply be the www version of the page rather than the non-www version of the page.

So in my case,

A. I could either go through and enter the non-www url in this field OR

B. More simply put a 301 redirect in the htaccess. Something along the lines of:


Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^www\.yourdomainhere\.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://yourdomainhere.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

I think the above is the reverse of what we want. So I'll have to fix that.

So my question, which do you recommend? The page by page method OR using the 301 redirect method?


Thanks

Tim

PS: Yes I searched the forum but didnt find the answer I desired.

[andrea_r]

The preferred url would simply be the www version of the page rather than the non-www version of the page.

If you alreyad have the WP install set up to show the www, and the permalinks already show those, there's nothing to insert here.

The field is if you want something *different* than the default.

[Tim.S]

Andrea

Thanks!