I have a web site www.montemed.com

When I search for the site on Google it comes up http://montemed.com... which
then does not link the the website www.montemed.com... 

How do a fix the problem so people can find me using Google?

jb

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Request for Question Clarification by scriptor-ga on 12 Apr 2004 15:04 PDT

Dear jbpmdd,

Both http://www.montemed.com/ and http://montemed.com/ work equally
fine for me - I tested them, and both URLs took me to the website of
the Montezuma Medical Clinic. There seems not to be a problem at all.

Scriptor

Jpmdd,

In case the problem hasn't been fixed since you posted the question,
you might want to go to a command prompt and issue the commands:

ping www.montemed.com
ping montemed.com

If there is a difference between the results from these two commands,
you have a DNS problem affecting your local machine that is preventing
you from resolving montemed.com properly. In that case the rest of the
world can get there; it's just you that cannot.

This is pretty common. Your web developer or somebody may have put an
entry in your HOSTS file or something during development.

Please let us know what happens!

Alan Kali

Additionally yous hodul note that if you ahve your site accessible
through both www. and without www then you're loosing valuable page
rank (google's ranking algorithm portion) and htis may negatively
affect your search results.

To make google and everyone else index your site only with www.
(recommended), add this in a file called ".htaccess" in the root
folder of your site (assuming you're running apache):

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

Replace example.com though.