Yahoo Canonical URL PROBLEMS!?

My site shows up in the Y Serps as "sitename.com" rather than "www.sitename.com".

What can be done here besides throwing up a redirect now?
Can I contact Y?

Thanks.

 

I think redirect is the best option.

Heck i redirect all my domains to www. always.

 

Anyone have a time frame on how long it takes Y to figure things out (i.e. show "www" in the serps instead of the non).

thanks.

 

The most likely reason why they don't include the www. is because they might rank yoursite.com higher than www.yoursite.com. You might have Quantity/Quality Links pointing to it.

I don't think the 301 redirect will transfer pagerank anymore. Atleast that is what is going around in the forums.

 

You could use mod rewrite to put a www.on every page when they enter your site from domain.com they are instantly redirected to www.domain.com
It is very easy to do and only a few lines of code need be added to your .htaccess file.

 

what are those lines to add in the .htaccess file ?

 

This is what I use:

Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.mydomain.com$ 
RewriteRule ^(.*)   http://www.mydomain.com/$1  [QSA,L,R=301]

Code (markup):

Jean-Luc

 

Thanks! it really works (I've been redirected to www.mydomain.com )