Hello all, If my website face canonical issue, then does my website will also face content issue problem? Please reply
Yes, could you at least hand out more details regarding your question so that we could help you a bit more accurately?
My qus is, i have website http://www.sitename.com and google also crawled my website with this url also http://sitename.com. that mean google index my website with 2 url but these url is actully same and one. So, google indexed my website with two diff url that is http://www.sitename.com and http://sitename.com, Does my website will face duplicate content issue?
Yes it will face duplicate content issue (However, due to improved design of Google algo, it will not negatively effect your website), as in Google eyes both www.sitename.com and sitename.com are two different pages and hold the same content. There are three ways to avoid these issues: 1) Redirect your non-www version to www version or vice versa through htaccess (Canonical optimization) 2) Use the preferred domain feature of webmaster tools: If other sites link to yours using both the www and non-www version of your URLs, you can let us know which way you prefer your site to be indexed. 3) Use rel="canonical" tag to let crawlers know from what page the content has taken from and what page need to be taken into consider.
Sure, in the first points, I suggested you to do the canonical optimization of your website in which you redirect your non-www version to www version or www version to non-www version, it all depends what domain kind you prefer for your website. I could provide you with the code if you require. Please PM me with your website URL. In my third point, I discussed about rel="canonical" in which you add canonical tag to a page that has duplicate content and this meta tag informs crawlers that the original content in on the mentioned page and they should ignore this page and index the original page instead. In your case if you preferred domain in with www then you can add following meta tag in your index file: <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.yoursitename.com/"/>
Insert this code anywhere in between your opening <head> and closing </head> tag. <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/ > Ex. <head> <title></title> <meta name="description" content="Lorem Ipsum Dolor Lorem Ipsum Dolor Lorem Ipsum Dolor" [b]<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.example.com/ >[/b] </head> Code (markup):