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Removal of www?

by SFitzpatrick
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When i'm using market samurai to check my google ranks the www has been omitted from the results. All my seo and links have been directed to www but now it shows that i have zero BLP.

Does this matter? I don't seem to have slipped in my rank spots, just not sure why it's happened?
#removal #www
  • Profile picture of the author hotlinkz
    Google sees www.domain.com and domain.com as two different destinations. Using both variations will dilute your link popularity.

    Create a Google Webmaster account and go to the Settings area to set your preferred domain. Then all backlink influence will funnel to the URL variation you select.
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    • Profile picture of the author NikkiBanks
      Originally Posted by hotlinkz View Post

      Google sees www.domain.com and domain.com as two different destinations. Using both variations will dilute your link popularity.

      Create a Google Webmaster account and go to the Settings area to set your preferred domain. Then all backlink influence will funnel to the URL variation you select.
      Thanks for this info.

      Need a small clarification here.

      When a site is indexed in google, is there a difference in these two.

      site: h ttp : // www. domain name. com
      This shows up results as indexed

      site: ht tp : // domain name.com
       This shows up as not indexed as yet.
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  • Profile picture of the author ann1986
    Set it up in Google Webmaster Central. Get data about crawling, indexing and search traffic. Increase traffic to your site. like he said and just wait for it to update.
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  • Profile picture of the author Marvin Johnston
    While the suggestion to use Webmaster Tools may help, it is not really a solution. The actual solution is pretty easy and just involves redirecting the non-www site to the www site (or vice versa.)

    Here is a good explanation of the problem along with how to properly do the redirects:

    Fixing Internal Duplicate Content with a Non-www Site Redirect - How-to Guide

    Note that the process is different for windows hosting vs apache servers.

    Marvin
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  • Profile picture of the author Marketing Cheetah
    Yes there is a difference in two. Sign up of for google.com/webmasters and you will be able to set your preferences there.

    You can also change www.domain.com to domain.com using .htaccess. Search google for this method. Its pretty easy.
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    • Profile picture of the author SFitzpatrick
      Thanks guys, i've done the change under google webmasters tools. Hopefully that will change things and even better, hopefully improve rankings!

      Ummm, then i read the .htaccess change and realise i actually need to do this. OK so i grab the link above posted by Marvin Johnson and follow the step by step guide - very cool, but now my main web page works, but all my other pages come up with an error.

      Any suggestions or help?
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