With www and with out www, I need HELP

Hello everyone.

Sorry for this newbie question. I'm just confused.

I have a month old site. When I checked Google for the indexed pages of my site, I wonder why it gives different results when i include www and when i don't include www.

It's like this when I searched for index pages and using this code site:http://mysite.com -- It gives all the indexed pages of the site BUT if i searched using the code site:http://www.mysite.com -- It gives no result at all

Please help me.

Thank You.

 

You can do a 301 redirect to the www. You can use .htAccess for that if you are using Linux. For windows the method is little different.

 

Princess, if you had registered with google as "http://site.com" , you would be able to seeonly non www. results. Panic not as webcosmo has already given a good suggestion.

I would also suggest you stick with one method while registering your site for ads, link building,etc. Else it may go over your head.

 

You need to properly 301 redirect the non-www URL format to the www format. Please insert the below code into your .htaccess file and it's done! Change yourdomain.com to your site leaving all variables intact.

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

Code (markup):

 

Hi,

I think this SEO Article will help you finding more information regarding your question.

Your comments are always welcome.

Thanks,

 

Whatever you choose, stick to it. If you do mysite.com, make sure all your backlinks follow that format

 

donna, you might want to have a look here http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=23044 hope that it would help you on either the htaccess or the "www" issue.

 

redirect your website either with www or without www, also dont forget to use your full url while getting back links.

 

Actually you cannot control how people link to you ....so the post above is a bit off base.

As ssandecki explained if youre on a Linix Unix server you can use your .htaccess file to resolve canonical URL (its not truly a 301)

By using this method all links to your site are forced to your full or absolute URL http: //www. yoursite .com which will solidify your PageRank as well as help with SERP rankings in time, and under the assumption that all other SEO steps have been done.

If you are on a Windoze server you would need an Isappi rewrite.....

 

Oh thanks SEM Advance, for the source code of .htaceess file for redirection..

 

Actually I didnt post it ssandecki did, and we both learned it from W3C or Apache I believe.

It is not a redirect however....it is a resolver so to speak....you will never see any other form of the URL in the browser address bar but the absolute URL once implemented.

With a redirect you would see the original referring url, then the destination url would appear.

 

Hey everyone I found this thread and was wondering... I had my site using non-www urls and used the steps to force the www in there. so now all urls are forced to the www version but when I hover over an internal link it says I am going to non www (i hope this makes sense)... My question is "is this bad, is google going to index the link as it is hovered over or the destination url?

 

You are hovering over the links on an html page and they are not written out as absolute URLs in your code.

Absolute = http://www.

Relative = anything else.

Google will follow the link......it does not index links.

In doing so it will see the URL should be in the absolute form.

 

yes, you will get different results for www. and non-www versions of your site.

any difference in URL will cause google to see two different pages.

you need to do a 301 redirect from one to another. it doesnt matter which one you choose, you just have to be consistent. also, go into google webmaster tools and set your preferred domain.

 

i m facing the same problem
lets hope this thread will solve my problem too

 

If you use the htaccess method of resolving the canonical URL there is no reason to use google webmaster tools.... and at times using google webmaster tools will screw Google up more than help....

 

didnt know that.

i always use it just to make sure google sees my redirect right away.

 

I need a help too. I have a site with http://yourdomain.com , and indexed on google with such domain. But not indexed with www.yourdomain.com

I am afraid of doing above redirect as i think google will reindex the site - Will this remove my pagerank if I redirect the non-www to www ?

Can i do redirect of www to non-www ?
please help.

 

so just so I can sleep at night... If using htaccess method and after clicking on a link (non-www or www version) it ends up at www.site.com, google sees all links as www? Thanks for help guys.

 

yes you can do a redirect of www to non-www. you just have to stay consistent. if i come across a site that is already ranked well for non-www and not for www...i always stick with the best.