I originally posted this in the Bing area, but got no replies --- so I'm reposting it here, hopefully to get some feedback... --- Due to some search engine canonical issues (www.site.com, site.com, https://www.site.com), a few days ago I added a rel="canonical" to my homepage - www.cprclass.org. I used the canonical tag due to some URL issues I couldn't correct with a 301/htaccess. I noticed a jump to number 1 on the SERPs for our site's main keywords, but yesterday and today, we seem to have dropped from our number 1 spot. But these are showing old caches so it may just be normal SE behavior... My main concern, however, is that I'm wondering if the rel="canonical" is an issue for us for Bing/Yahoo. I just put it on our homepage as: <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.cprclass.org/" /> What we were showing under the results for our canonical before and today (not the brief time we were number 1) was/is: https://www.cprclass.org and http://cprclass.org. Finally, what is with the https://www.cprclass.org? I've never used or been linked to from that address before... Any thoughts are more than appreciated.
I just checked your cache it is showing result for http://www.cprclass.org/ and cached on 1 march 2011. and your ranking is 5 on your main keyword. when i tried to open with non www it is redirected to www version. SE show result with www show your canonical issue get resolved. and drop in ranking from 1 to 5 is due to canonical issue which is now resolved