Hi Friends, I have one query please guide me. If i am using www and non www for same site then what Google consider? I have redirect the URL from non www to www and the both pages are crawling then it is good or bad? Can i do this kind of stuff? or i can choose any of one? Please share your best experience. Thanks,
You are done. The issue is fixed by redirecting non www to www but it is better to use 301 redirection, so that the Search Engine's can understand that the page is permanently moved to another location. Going with two different versions, there is a chance of content duplication.
Always try to use www.domain.com, it is more SEO friendly. If you are redirecting non www to www, then use permanent redirection otherwise this may cause badly on your Google ranking due to the content Duplication. Because Search Engines crawlers will take www.domain.com and domain.com as two different sites.
I dont actually use any in backlinking. When asked for the link to my site I simply put it in without the http or www. It is automatically transformed into a http link though.
Work on single url, Permanent Redirection 301 is better option for you, so you can get seo benefit of non www url.
Pick one or the other and 301 redirect the other. Some like one some like the other. I don't know that one or the other is better in seo. I like www's. Generally no www's tend to load faster though. But, you are talking miliseconds. So if that is helpful to you go for it.
Ok, folks I'll try to explain in a way you can understand. Having www and non www is bad, because : 1) You feeding double the content witch at a point would be consider manipulation of serp's and doesn't go with google moto of providing quality results. 2) You competing with your self on serp's 3) You not creating a well structured site 4) Your site is not user friendly Many have selected to use the www since is natural behavior of people to type www.somedomain.com instead of somedomain.com, this is not anew thing this actually became the behavior establish because in the past all advertisement where www.somedomain.com. It won't matter witch one you select www or non www, but you should select one.
You can submit both www and non-www verified version of the website to the search engine... google webmaster tool gives you an option of selecting the preferred domain version. Although, its suggested to 301 redirect one of them to the other... else... all the 'link juice' gets divided among 2 different domains (as per search engines)
You are not given a choice submitting both www and non-www through Google, your suggestion is a great technique to try, considering that splitting the "link juice" does not make sense when it is possible to have it combined. What must one do to correctly perform a 301 redirection?
just place this code in your htaccess file RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
for me ive selected my WWW in webmasters as my primary website, is that ok? Google doesnt seem to be crawling both of them, or shall i do a 301 redirect aswell to be sure?