Difference between Site:www.xyz.com and site:xyz.com ??

hi everyone,
i am checking links for one of my client sites when i checked in google search bar as

site:http://xyz.com
it shows different search numbers
but when i checked as with www version of the site

it shows different search numbers

How ??
any one can help me to resolve this confusion of mine.

Thanks,
Rahul Setia

 

okay, for google "www" and non-www both are different domains and maybe you can also open your website both way and if you want to see only one domain in google, you first need to verify your both domain in google webmasters tools. and then set your preferred domain.

the problem is solved now
was that helps ? you got what you were looking for ?

 

How we can set proffered domain ..if we already verified both versions in google webmaster.

 

Login to google webbmaster tools, click on your website (www or without www any.). now click on Gear/settings icon right left side.

>> Site Settings >> Preferred domain >> Display URL as www. xyz.com OR Display URL as xyz.com.
hope now it's clear

 

Yup that's clear thanx

 

You could also add an .htaccess rule to catch the one you don't want and convert it to the other.

Personally, I go for the non-www listing these days, as it's quicker to type on mobiles. I point the www version to it.

 

yes will do it,, thnx

 

Just adding, If you plan to create subdomains like abc.xyz.com, better go for www

 

this problem is related to the canonical issue if both case show the different link in the SERP Page (search engine result page).

 

generally this is not a big difference these are same url. but according to web or search engine this is totally wrong because search engine crawl (read) separate link so we can say according to web it's canonical issue. with the help of .htaccess file we can easily solve this types of error.

 

www and non-www are different websites/domains as far as Google is concerned. Most sites with natural backlink profiles have links to both the www and to the non-www version. Many people are still used to type www. in front of any domain name.

If you build your own site, redirect one to the other. It doesn't matter which one you choose to be the main, redirect the other to it. That's if the domain is brand new. If you're using an expired domain, then see which version of it has more links, and make that the main, with the other redirected to it.

 

Yes. We can do it with .htaccess file, but just to give a quick tip: If you don't know what EXACTLY you are doing, better don't use this method!

 

Nah, just look it up on StackExchange: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/234723/generic-htaccess-redirect-www-to-non-www

Easy, no knowledge required. Gotta love geeks on tap!

 

Hmm nice question. Simple answer is your site have both home page. I mean your site open with both url - with WWW. and WITHOUT WWW. So google is indexing both home page as different. So you should redirect WITHOUT WWW. page to WITH WWW. Once your site is indexed, you would get same result for both page (site:without www. & site:with www.)

 

any proof of this ?

 

There may be canonical issue on your website