This technique will make sure that all visitors go to the same URL. There is a difference between http://www.site.com and site.com . This may also result in Pagerank dropping/not rising.
What is a pagerank?
Google’s Scale of Measurement which determines in Google’s eyes how relevant or important a website is. The higher your pagerank is (0->10) , the better your site is and the better you will get listed.
It’s always a pain in the ass if you are running a gallery site or any other site that contains quality images that other people would easily place on their site. If people hotlink images from your domain your bandwidth will be used up and they will get the honour of having the image. We can solve this by using mod_rewrite. If we use mod_rewrite to check the referrer we can easily make sure that there is no hotlinking. Only thing we have to do is check if the referrer is your own domain or not, and if it isn’t you can display a default image where you make yourself clear on not to leech images from your site.
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