www, non www, 301 redirects & Google webmaster tools

Discussion in 'SEO' started by jpf566, Feb 10, 2012.

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    arg! Any help on this topic would be greatly appreciated! This is in regards to sheffieldfurniture .com In October of 2011 I had our host set up a redirect for our site so all non www requests would be redirected to the www version and it works great (so it seems at least)

    Recently I signed up for SEOMOZ pro and when I started trying to track my organic results for various keywords I realized that Google has my site indexed in the non www format.

    Is this a problem? I’ve read you can tell google what your preferred domain is in Google Webmaster Tools, is that what I should be doing? Are there any negatives to doing that? I’m just confused as to why Google hasn’t noticed or acknowledged the redirect in 4 months. It makes me wonder if something isn’t working properly?

    I have since added a second SEOMOZPRO campaign with the non www version but I’m worried about having historical tracking issues if I then tell google to use the www version…
     
    jpf566, Feb 10, 2012 IP
  2. gcswebs

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    make changes on .htaccess file in your root folder , you need to work on cannonical tag redirect
     
    gcswebs, Feb 13, 2012 IP