Not sure if I made a mistake or not

[fonoi]

Hi

I have a blog with a few backlinks (but they dont show in backlink trackers), a possible problem I have noticed is google has indexed my site without the www and my backlink's use www

Should I be worried about this?

I have also signed up for google webmaster tools using the www link, but all stats are blank. Does this mean I need to re-add the site using the link without www? When I send the googlebot to fetch the page it shows a 301 message. Does this matter?

Thank you in advance for any advice.

[JaninaAlcantara]

wait for google to spider it, usually it takes 2 weeks or more before you will the backlinks.

i hoped i helped

[sjtmdwns]

it will still work

[Alyona The Publicist]

The best thing to do is to make a redirect from the non-www version of your site to the www version, that way google will only see the www version and any links to the non-www version will be directed to the main site.

The best google friendly way to do it is to edit the .htaccess file and add the following code (in red) into the .htaccess file. Be sure to substitute “example.com” with your own website information but touch nothing else.

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

[fonoi]

Thank you very much, that is a great tip. I will go ahead and make the change.

[brobdingnagian]

Sounds like it should still work. Don't sweat it, bro.

[david87]

I think this is a major problem in now a days.Mostly webmasters forget to use 301 redirection.So we should redirect both url to one url at the very first time so that SE can not count website with two urls because it can hurt our website ranking.