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Yes, please do!

I thought that page.ly looked nice, but the reason I didn't move there is because I can't afford to. I know I mentioned this before, but to put it more bluntly, last week my internet was shut off for a while because I couldn't pay the bill. I didn't know if I was going to be able to pay my other utilities, either, but this month I lucked out. I just thought about it and realized that even if I had been able to scrape together the money for page.ly for the month, there's absolutely no guarantee I'd be able to do it again month after month.

I know blogger isn't as good for SEO, although to be honest I couldn't find a ton of information about that. For one thing, I see that internal links have a lot of parameters, but my permalinks and inbound links are pretty simple, so isn't that what matters for SEO purposes? And actually, I find blogger to be more user-friendly, so it has fixed some of my problems, like redirecting my naked domain to the www domain automatically for the first time.

I've had blogs on blogger before, and I know they get some search traffic eventually. My current plan is to see if my site becomes commercially viable at all, and if it starts to make the profit to pay for it, maybe I'll actually pay someone to migrate it to page.ly or similar and make sure it's set up right. If not, eh, no more money lost, at least.

I do appreciate the other resources, though, especially the free email to replace google apps, which I searched for for a while and couldn't find, and also copyblogger – I've started listening to their podcast, and it's very interesting, thanks!

I am strongly considering transferring my main project to page.ly as you suggested, BTW.

Ok, hmm. I don't believe my sites are hosted at Amazon, they are hosted through Wealthy Affiliate (although, it's possible that all WA sites are hosted at Amazon and they just don't tell you that, I honestly have no idea). The only interaction I have had with Amazon is putting an affiliate ad on my page.

I have bought about five domains because, well, I already use a couple of them for other projects, and I just found some more great keywords for subjects I would like to write about. I'm trying to pursue niche writing for profit, and not all of my writing subjects fit into the same niche. Does that make sense?

Thanks. Yeah, I noticed that pages were loading both with and without the www... but does that really matter, as long as Google only considers one version real for SEO purposes? I thought that was the important point.

I've tried redirecting with various plugins, but unfortunately that just causes the endless loop error no matter how I do it. I feel like there must be some mystery setting working against whatever I put in.

I appreciate your suggestions about registrars, hosting, etc, but the reason I'm using what I'm using is mostly because I'm broke. My current host lets me run as many websites as I want for a set price, and I have domains on a bunch of different registrars from getting $1 deals... yeah, I can see this strategy is not paying off, so I will look into some of the services you recommend and see if they will be possibilities in the future.

I was able to use that feature to set the canonical URL for my home page (to the www version!) I tried to use the 301 redirect feature under it to redirect to the www page, which still caused the redirection loop, but since I basically just wanted to do that for SEO purposes, I think that will work! Now I just need to go through and set canonical URLs for the other pages, but I don't have too many, so that is fine. Thanks again, I have been fighting with this for days.

But, Ok, that's good to know about canonical URL being only for SEO. I guess it's a redirection problem rather than a canonical URL problem.

Yes, it also looks like it's working fine on my end right now... but I have the address listed as organicencyclopedia.com under general settings. If I change the main address to www.organicencyclopedia.com (which is what I am trying to do), it causes a redirect loop error again. (Also, just in case my All in One SEO was causing a problem I deactivated that and installed Yoast, but the same thing is still happening)

Well... I can now enter www.organicencyclopedia.com OR organicencyclopedia.com and go to the page without being redirected, which...that in itself seems kind of odd because I have canonical URLs turned on... but anyway, I'm still getting the redirection loop if I change the URLS to www in general settings. Guess I'll try again tomorrow in case I just haven't waited long enough, though.

Hey, I followed those instructions and I finally had a place to enter the information! So, it did have a value already in place for www, which makes me wonder if this was even the problem at all... but I did replace it with the value you posted, so now I just have to wait for the change to take effect, and hopefully it will all work. Thanks so much for your help!

Thank you! So, just to clarify, if I follow these instructions will my website be destroyed? I mean, the instructions you gave about how to add the record on network solutions.

I only have fields that look like this:

name server 1:  _______________

name server 2: _______________

nothing with two fields like your picture

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This sounds like it should be very helpful, but I'm having trouble adding more records. I guess I shouldn't have gone with a weird cheap registrar  I have the option to add more DNS records, but not with content on two sides...I just have a bunch of single fields for adding things like "name server 3:" well, really I could add any number of name servers, but that seems to be the only option I have. There are some advanced DNS controls (which I can't see yet) but when I click on that it warns me that

"In order to use Advanced DNS Manager, your Name Servers must be moved to Network Solutions managed name servers."  ...so that's why I'm afraid of my website being destroyed if I try any of that, but that might be the way to do it.  By the way, if I figure out where I can enter that, is that a CNAME record?

Ok, I just tried changing both addresses to www.organicencyclopedia.com, and again I'm having the same problem. I tried a different browser, but it still says it can't open the page because of too many redirects.

Could it be an issue of needing to set up a CNAME record with www? I just looked into doing that a little, but that requires switching my DNS settings back to my registrar, apparently. If I did that would my website be destroyed, or would it still be there when I switch the DNS settings back later? (Or is this CNAME thing completely the wrong idea?)

Thanks! my website is organicencyclopedia.com, which is what it usually says in both of the fields you show above. I have tried changing it in either or both fields, but that has caused an error every time. Yes, I have All In One SEO. When I say I tried turning canonical URLs off, I mean in this plugin, with the check-box (I think it would be good to have canonical URLs turned on, but I would like to have everything set up so that the canonical address has www if possible, and I think right now it's the opposite). I don't know what you mean by am I on the same host.

I can't easily try it again in another browser because I've set everything back to the original settings (no www) so my site wouldn't be completely broken... but if I try to change things again, I'll definitely check it out in a different browser.

I'm having canonical URL problems. I keep trying to set everything to www.mydomain.com, but I'm using wordpress and my site keeps either disappearing completely or giving me an infinite loop error. I've tried changing my main wordpress setting, whether I have canonical URLs turned on, my .htaccess file...

Could this be an issue with either my host or my domain registrar? Any ideas how I can fix it?