Google caching without the "www." is this a problem?

I notice that google caches my site as "http://thetailsection.com" instead of "http://www.thetailsection.com"

Does that represent a problem?

 

IMO you might have some problems when you'll use subdomains.

 

maybe this is due of someone linking to your : thetailsection.com instead of the domain with www.

i dont see why he should have prob when adding subdomains ?

 

His domains might face some difficulty while indexing IMO
Maybe you are correct in that backlinks statement
but
Google with link:http://thetailsection.com/

Google with link:http://www.thetailsection.com/

 

Could this be a result of internal linking on the site? I think I might be linking internally without the www....

 

I dont think so, check this report

The internal linking IMO is appropriate

 

What you should do is create a .htaccess file that redirects *.com to www.*.com, that way, search engines will link to the right one.

 

Check your livesite in this, your problem should be in this, i hope so
This is Joomla, no?

 

I am also seeing same type of problem with my site.

 

this can cause canonical problems whereby google indexes both the www and the non www version of your site, then sees its exactly the same content and whacks a dup penalty on you. Bigdaddy was supposed to of sorted the issue, but we know how well thats working out

if you add the following to your .htaccess file at the root of the doman it will perform a 301 redirect from non www to www.

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

I place the above by default on all my domains just in case.

 

As mentioned you want to 301 redirect from the non www version to the www version, to prevent any PR dilution.

 

Nope, it is actually Blogger.

 

One offtopic suggestion for you

Dont leave spaces in your urls, fill all the spaces with "-" without quotes.

 

Thanks guru. Does this affect rankings? or is it an aesthetic thing?

 

Well, search engines will obviously appreciate urls like
http://www.thetailsection.com/lost-episode-guide.html
instead of
http://www.thetailsection.com/lost%20episode%20guide.html
Do you still need an explanation for this?

 

Nope...thanks for the tip... implementing...

 

Romance,
Could you explain to me what I am sure must be obvious to others, but not to me, what and where ".htaccess file at the root of the doman" is?
Thanks

 

In apache/linux its a hidden file, u need to change settings in ur hosting panel to show .htaccess file
and in IIS/windows its htaccess.txt