Backlinking error. Warrior warning. Don't screw up like I did.

birddog200 · 08-09-2009, 01:59 PM

I hope to help some of my fellow warriors out here. I know

that a lot of you already know about this, but some don't.

I screwed up. while checking out my back links for my website, I

noticed that a lot of the good high PR sites were not showing up.

So then I submitted my site again using www in front. And boom,

there they were. So apparently while back linking, in the anchor text,

I used www and just the site name on different sites. So now some

of my links are on one and the rest are on the other. I feel like a

dumb dumb. So stick with one format for all your links.

http:// yoursite. com
or
http:// www.yoursite. com

Hope this post is useful.

Steve Diamond · 08-09-2009, 02:19 PM

You can mitigate the damage. Choose which version of the URL you prefer, tell Google about your choice (webmaster tools), and create a 301 redirect from the one you don't prefer to the one you do prefer.

For details about how to do this, see these two recent threads:

Steve

MeCanX · 08-09-2009, 02:22 PM

yeah, I always put www. in front...just habit now..

Wilter Quesada · 08-09-2009, 02:26 PM

I feel your pain I have done the same, now I have links from www. and http//do I cant believed my mistake

ecoverartist · 08-09-2009, 02:39 PM

Here are step-by-step instructions from a blog post I wrote for Search Engine Journal that shows you how to setup a redirect if you change domain names (also works with www versus plain http://)

How to Change Your Domain While Keeping Your Search Engine Ranking

jakesellers · 08-09-2009, 02:41 PM

It's probably not worth worrying about too much, between everybody making that mistake forever, name-based loadbalancing and people trying to game them google's gotten pretty good at figuring out intended canonalities.

Patrick Mader · 08-09-2009, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Steve Diamond

You can mitigate the damage. Choose which version of the URL you prefer, tell Google about your choice (webmaster tools), and create a 301 redirect from the one you don't prefer to the one you do prefer.

For details about how to do this, see these two recent threads:

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Steve

Thanks for this usefull post..

Cheers,

Patrick

AdvancedSamurai · 08-09-2009, 03:58 PM

I hate W W W. I always redirect w w w . domain to domain. I see no point in using w w w unless you have also other subdomains.

Smokey_Joe · 08-10-2009, 06:12 AM

This is really a pretty common thing that very few people take care of upfront. Canonicalization issues are also associated with / vs /index, these too need to be redirected.

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