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I need help! Major SEO dilemna

by conceptmarketing
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I am very new to all of this SEO stuff and I have developed a highly targeted strategy for getting my sites ranked. I need help so I do not screw it up.

I had posted earlier saying that one of my sites had increased to PR-1 and that I had very much ignored it. While my money site which I work 50 hours a week on had remained unchanged. Then this morning I signed on and my Money site is now PR-4 and my SERPS have shot up.

I had recently fixed a canonical URL problem making mysite consistently redirect to the home page at the non www URL because my wordpress blog which is getting indexed regularly followed that format.

Now most of my link building was done using the www form of the domain and my site moved from 134 to 64 in SERPs for my top and most competitive keywords. The version of the homepage indexed by google is the www version.

Should I change my prefferred domain back to the www version of the URL?

Do I risk losing any of these gains by doing so?

Do you think any of this was due to my setting a canonical domain or just a timing coincidence?
#dilemna #major #seo
  • Profile picture of the author brunom
    Originally Posted by conceptmarketing View Post

    Should I change my prefferred domain back to the www version of the URL?

    Do I risk losing any of these gains by doing so?

    Do you think any of this was due to my setting a canonical domain or just a timing coincidence?
    No need to change back, they are dealt the same.

    Changing it up shouldn't change the rankings.

    Timing Coincidence probably, unless you were telling Google to index the non-www pages on the robots.txt file.
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  • Profile picture of the author dadamson
    When you set up a 301 redirect on either your www or non-www site you are essentially moving any backlinks to the page you are pointing it too.

    So I'd say it was not just coincidence that your site shot up in the SERPs for some keywords.

    This also means that there is no need to move your site. As long as you have the redirect you now only have one version of your site and nothing more needs to be done.

    Oh and good work on the 50 hours per week you put into it! A lot more than a lot of people here can do!
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