Is there any correlation to time and search ranking?

[casper434]

Hi Alan, I tried to address this by going to google webmaster tools and establishing the .ca as the preferred domain. I also added a canonical tag to identify the .ca as primary. Not sure if this is enough. My web host says that they do not do 301 redirects and after talking to godaddy.com about how it is set up they suggested leaving as is. I am concerned about google searches but less so with other search engines. As far as code goes I did a  W3C html markup and noticed quite a number of tag issues but they all seemed to be with what I cannot access (part of how the templates are set up by the host) as a user (unless I just do not know how). Any additional thoughts on this would be appreciated

Brett

[AlanMosley]

You have to do a 301 redirect, that important, what web site are we talking about, i was looking at the one under your name .com.

if you dont want to make it public you can personal message it

[casper434]

Private message sent to ThatsIT

[AlanMosley]

if you are with godaddy here are the instructions

http://help.godaddy.com/article/422?locale=en

Forward Only — Specifies the length of time for this forwarding setting. Select one of the following Redirect types:

• I am permanently forwarding my domain — Redirects to       the site you specified in the Forward To field using a "301 Moved       Permanently" HTTP response. The HTTP 301 response code tells user-agents       (including search engines) that the location has permanently moved.

[casper434]

Is it sufficient to redirect  mydomain.ca to www.mydomain.ca or will I also need to redirect mydomain.com to mydomain.ca?

[AlanMosley]

yes all of then to your chosen one.

[casper434]

Godadday does not host my site so if I redirect the mydomain.com to mydomain.ca through them I assume that this will take care of both the sub-domain and root domain between the .com and .ca domains but that I will be effectively removing the .com from my host server. Will this have any negative effect on my .ca? Also since godadday does not host the .ca can I do a 301 from mydomain.ca to www.mydomain.ca through them.

[AlanMosley]

Cant see any think happaning yet
if you are using Ineternet exporer, press F12
select the network tab
and start capture, now when you navigate you can see the response statsu codes

[casper434]

Hi Alan, your last response to my most recent post just lost me. Godaddy does not host my ste

[AlanMosley]

Sorry my mis-understanding, you will need to do somthing about your 301 problem. you need to look into a .htaccess file