How to Redirect Non-WWW to WWW

Search engines consider http://joshstauffer.com and to be different websites. Therefore if you have others linking to both versions of your site you are splitting up your link juice. To correct this you can use a simple 301 redirect in your site’s .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^joshstauffer\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /$1 [R=301,L]