I can’t believe something I just saw. I have been working on the link building of a site for sometime now and created a lot of links using the www in my domain. But strangely, Google has only indexed about 75 of my pages with the www. The main page has not even been indexed! However, in the non www version, I have more than 400 pages indexed. I can’t understand this. Will this affect my Google rankings as some of my urls are pointing to sites with www? In them, they are not even coming up. What do I do?
Did you tell Google what you wanted on their webmaster tools page when you set this up? It's one of the first things you do.
You can use 301 and google webmaster tools to tell google that you want all the www point to non www or non www point to www. From what I know. Also you can get more details from google by logging in and checking that way, google like to keep some data hidden.
I'm not sure if it will help, but can you submit your main page? http://www.google.com/addurl or maybe try pinging the main page with something like Pingler?
Implement a 301 permanent redirection from non www version to www version. This is most likely due to the non www version not redirected to the www version and the googlebots have considered the non www version as basis for your homepage. Also, there's no point doing all link building for the www version if it is not even indexed. Implement a 301 then continue link building.
I had an inssue before with regards to URL without "www". I find it hard to rank not until our webmaster redirect it into a domain with "www".
Hi, My suggestion would be: 1. setting up one version of your domain name, with or without www, in your Google webmaster center account. 2. using 301 redirection in your .htaccess file and pick up the same version of domain name as above. all the best,