SEO Canonical URLs And 301 Redirects In Windows IIS 6, IIS 7

Some readers have emailed me asking why I’m only writing about canonical URL and redirect issues for the apache/linux platform and haven’t given any advice on how to fix these issues on Microsoft Windows IIS/ASP.NET servers . So in the interest of equal time, I figure I had better present fixes for both old and new versions of IIS. In IIS 6 it can be corrected with global.asax , but with IIS 7 Microsoft added URL redirect support to the web.config file.  First a URL redirect fix for the older versions of ASP.NET on IIS 6:    Canonical URL Issues In Microsoft Windows IIS 6 IIS 6 (Microsoft’s Internet Information Server webserver) doesn’t have URL redirection built-in, but you can still add it on your own. Here’s the quickest and easiest way to fix the most common canonical URL issue , where both of these URLs return the same (duplicate) content: http://yoursite.com http://www.yoursite.com The quickest and easiest way...