Are http://domains.com or http://www.domain.com same in google eyes?

Hi Dp Membors,

I just change my hosting and move my site to another one, my website domain was http://******.com on old hosting. this time my domain is http://www.******.com on new hosting. I had 190 backlinks before. but it shows only one after moving site. Can you please guys let me know how can i get rid of this problem?

 

yes they're the same to the googlebot crawler, what google sees only is the actual domain.com

regards,

 

They are same..
But, to keep the present backlinks intact, make a 301 redirect to the www version from non-www version.

 

Thanks for you input @digitech, Can you please guide me how can i redirect it to non-www version to www-verson?

 

They aren't the same as far as i know. But correct me if i'm wrong. I have once read an article about an issue between "Non-WWW" and "WWW" domains.

 

You can do it at your Cpanel or create .htaccess file

 

domain and www.domain do NOT have to have the same content, as www. is a sub domain same as www1. or something.domain are. Usually on most sites the www. will show the same content tho.

It is always best to do a 301 redirect of the one you don't use to the one you do, and as has been said you can do that in cpanel , .htaccess etc.

You should also set your preferred www or non www in google webmaster tools, and use the canonical tag in your html to help other search engines in case your inbound links are not consistent.

 

put this at your .htaccess file

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^domain.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [r=301,nc]

Code (markup):

Rerplace domain.com with your actual domain name.

 

Yes,they both are same in google's eyes.

 

Use a 301 direct to transfer backlinks, and no google does not see the difference between the two.

 

No, They are different and therefore need to use 301 redirect

 

Use redirect of domain.com to www.domain.com so the backlinks will stay fine.