Hi, This is my second post after introducing myself. I also searched for an answer before posting, with no luck. Also I have searched and searched on the web for this answer with no luck so I hope someone has it hiding away somewhere. I currently have two websites for the same product, one hosted on a dedicated IP and the other hosted on a shared IP. Site A Shared IP Site B Dedicated IP Both sites seem to check out fine and both working well. Site B google cache is showing Site A, and has been for sometime. The last cache date from google was Oct 28, 06. Site B has been completed for a couple months now. Anyone see this before and or know the problem? Both my sites with proper keywords ranked first page with Google, Msn, and Yahoo and now they are both dropping positions.
Yes, sorry with my first post I didn't want it to look like I was trying to create links to my site.. people seem very sensitive to that now. www.ledneonflex.com Also I want to point out that http://ledneonflex.com cache is correct, http://www.ledneonflex.com is not correct... I have posted in other forums without any answers to this issue. Thank you.
I am interested to know if it is possible to have two different web sites for the same domain name - one, using "www", and the other without it. I thought that the same domain name, in this case, ledneonflex, is reached either using the "www" prefix, or not. I am puzzled by this post.
This is only one web site. http://www.ledneonflex.com and http://ledneonflex.com are the same web site - right? Maybe this will help: "If you have both yoursite.com and www.yoursite.com you must consolidate two "sites" into one. Showing your content under two different URLs is never a good idea. First find out the PageRank of each version. and can choose version which has higher PR as it is mostly linked by other websites. You must adopt 301 redirect so there aren't two versions of your site out there ( www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com). It will most likely change your rankings positively as you no longer "split" your site across two sets of URLs, hence each URL will get more link power. You may not see the effect in short term as search engines takes time in whole update of web. You can make 301 redirection in many but most popularity is to use either .htaccess file or set on server. You can also set up your server with the right default hostname when you do this stuff (or to have your host do it for you).If the web server is not configured to have the proper default (www or non-www), there will be so many redirects, it will take ages to load the site. By now providing a redirect, people will naturally link to you using the one that you want to be used. Make sure that all of your internal links go to the correct one too. Linking of your site with consistence URL will force the search engine to index real URL and people to link the URL structure you want and will result into saving of leakage of PageRank and increase in link popularity to improve you search engine ranking and goal of each web site owner to increase traffic will be achieved." Found here: http://www.articlesbase.com/se-opti...-importance-www-vs-nonwww-versions-62455.html
Thank you Tara33 for the explanation. I considered using the 301 redirect, but only google seems to see ledneonflex.com as ledflexlight.com. Also, they are both differnt sites, one is not an older version of the other or 2 differnt sites on the same URL. www.ledflexlight.com is one website and www.ledneonflex.com is another. cache:www.ledneonflex.com points to www.ledflexlight.com now both websites did end up with that trojan download virus that exploited cpanel and I think this is the cause... and I can't figure out how to fix it, do you think a 301 will point it to the correct site? or will google just keep seeing ledflexlight.com...
I thought you were saying that the above showed the same cache - which they should, as they are the same domain name. I didn't realize there are actually two different domain names involved. I thought you were saying that http://www.ledneonflex.com and http://ledneonflex.com were two different web sites. That's where my confusion stemmed from. Now, it is clearer...www.ledflexlight.com is also involved. Both caches:queries bring up correct results for me. Each points to its own site.
Looks like Google bans one of the sites for the duplicate content. Search the web for "duplicate content" and you will find a lot of articles with useful info about this topic.