Hi, I have recently launched a website 1 month ago, but google has crawled both with and without www for all the pages ex:http://mydomain.com and http://www.mydomain.com but i want my domain to be www.mydomain.com, i tried using google webmaster tool but i got this message (Part of the process of setting a preferred domain is to verify that you own http://mydomian.com/. Please verify http://mydomain.com/) i have already verified. I have used redirect using htaccess 1 week back, below is the code. RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www RewriteRule (.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [L,R=301] You can see cache without WWW here and with WWW here Let me know how to change the crawel rate. Please suggest me what to do? Thanks, Jack
If you done the redirect properly to your prefer url (with www), it will take effect soon, work too on getting quality backlinks to help it out. As for crawling rate, just push that level a little bit higher, you don't have to rush things for your site is still young.