info:www.site.com returns Sorry, no information... But site is cached in Google

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by DoctorFred, Aug 17, 2010.

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    I am consulting for a site that is 5 months old. It is indexed in Google. Googling for site:www.domain.com returns results, and I can find results by querying random text from site's articles. But the query info:www.domain.com returns the "Sorry, no information is available for the url.." message.

    I am not sure if the info:www.domain.com query has ever returned results before, or if it has always been "Sorry, no information.."

    What do you think this means - why would they return the Sorry, no information message, but still have the site showing up in search results?

    Thanks very much for your help and comments!
     
    DoctorFred, Aug 17, 2010 IP
  2. DoctorFred

    DoctorFred Active Member

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    This is solved I think. Actually in this case, Google returns stuff for info:www.site.com but it returns the Sorry, no information message for info:site.com. I think because the site is so new, Google is only familiar with the url www.site.com and not site.com. All the backlinks so far seem to have www. in them, so this makes sense. Have never run into this before -- always got the same results for info: with or without the www. -- but there is a post on Google talking about it as well.
    Still interested in any further comments the community might have on this :) Thanks!
     
    DoctorFred, Aug 17, 2010 IP
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    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    this issue is not yet solved i believe. you should do a 301 redirect to avoid this in the future. by doing a 301 redirect, your non-www version will be directed to www version that will avoid such issue. you will also save your site from PR leak
     
    sultanofseo, Aug 17, 2010 IP
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