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Non-www / www snafu

by densto88
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Hi, sorry if this has been asked a bunch already, I checked the FAQ's pinned to the top of this forum and did a bunch of searches but couldn't find the answer.

I recently got a new niche site onto the front page of google but then realized I hadn't fixed the non-www site to redirect to the w w w (ignore the spaces, this forum software seems to think this is a link if I don't have spaces). Google appears to have indexed the non-w w w for my main domain page and the w w w for everything else. I made the changes to do the redirect and also updated webmaster tools to prefer the w w w domain. About a day after I did this I fell off of the first page and am nowhere to be found. (Note, I haven't started backlinking at all yet)

I noticed google has re-indexed my site as of yesterday but this issue still exists, is there something I can do to fix this? Or is this probably not an issue and something else caused my drop?

Sorry for the newbie question, but I'm a newbie
#nonwww #snafu #www
  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    The non-WWW and WWW version are seen as two different pages by Google. If you redirected one that was ranking to the other, it is pretty normal for the redirected one to drop. If it really deserved to be there, the new page will move back up eventually. On the other hand, this was a new site, so it probably didn't deserve to be ranked on the first page in the first place (especially with no backlinks), and was probably only ranking there because of QDF.
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