301 redirect and improved ranking

[seoanalytics]

I was wondering if a 301 redirect will improve my ranking.

My subpages use to redirect to my homepage ( all the subpages of my site redirecting to my homepage) and my homepage use to have no redirect from non www.to www. ( other than thru google webmaster tools. I am sure why it was like this for my subpages...

I was wondering if I can expect some improvements in ranking now that the redirect goes from the none www. to the www version of each subpage and not to the homepage.

By the way what was the issue ( was I telling google ) by re-directing all my subpages to the homepage ? was I making google think that my subpages and my homepage were all the same ? was I sending all the link juice from the subpages to my homepage ? etc...

Thank you,

[EricaMcGillivray]

If you set up the http://example.com to http://www.example.com for the entire domain, then you don't have to worry about the other pages. You can do this by putting the following code in your .htaccess file:

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