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Any Techies In The House?

by virtualprincipal
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This question is for anyone who happens to be smarter than me

(that narrows it down:rolleyes...


I need to know why the http:// and http:// www protocols show different number of pages being indexed in Google..


And how can I change the http:// www so it will show more than one indexed page?


Please talk to me like I am a child...


I will hang up and listen....


VP
#house #techies
  • Profile picture of the author lukedidit
    To be honest thinking about this a bit more (with a ninja edit), get in touch with your hosting provider on live chat and they will let you know the best way.

    You can normally do this in CPanel:

    Under use 'Redirect to:'

    http://yoursite.com > http://www.yoursite.com

    The techie way is using .htacesss:


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

    This will redirect googles spider to www too, so eventually they will drop cache for http://
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  • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
    If it's a wordpress blog, go to settings general you will how there. Yes It does make a difference and I do not know why, Someone said something about here one time and I went straight to my sites and changed all of them.
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    • Profile picture of the author virtualprincipal
      Originally Posted by hustlinsmoke View Post

      If it's a wordpress blog, go to settings general you will how there. Yes It does make a difference and I do not know why, Someone said something about here one time and I went straight to my sites and changed all of them.

      Actually, it is a Drupal site of which I have absolutely no experience.....
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      • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
        Originally Posted by virtualprincipal View Post

        Actually, it is a Drupal site of which I have absolutely no experience.....
        Yeah a redirect then. I do know when I found out that it did make a hugh difference by inputing the www. into the website.
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  • Profile picture of the author WillR
    I have always heard that Google looks at them as different pages -- I'm not sure why they still do this. But you should always only use one or the other. To do this you would use a simple htaccess redirect as mentioned above in post number 2.
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  • Profile picture of the author SamuelUherek
    If you don't know the difference between http://www.domain.com and http://domian.com read this Matt's blog post SEO advice: url canonicalization. This will explain it.
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  • Profile picture of the author ronc0011
    What you need to do is make a change edit to our htaccess file you can get a very good understanding of what you need to do and why it's important just do a Google search for "www or no www" there is a lot of information about thisand it is definately something you want to correct.
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