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DerekH - 10:22 am on Mar 19, 2005 (gmt 0)


I have a friend with a website problem in his Google listing (and not in any other search engine listing as far as I can see)...
Yes, it really is a friend, and not me :-)

Here's the set up -
His homepage is www.example.com and that's how it's listed in Google.

Google has just about every page in their index (and the site is doing well), but every page except the homepage is listed as example.com/subpage (ie with the www. removed).

I've looked at his html and it's clean as a whistle.
In a browser, any link from www.example.com takes me to *www*.example.com/subpage

Arguably, Google has decided that example.com/subpage and www.example.com/subpage are duplicates and has supressed the wrong one.

Like my sites, it's possible to browse his site with and without the www.

The one difference, which is why I'm asking for help, is that my sites are all Apache based, and his is Windows IIS.

Any ideas how we can get Google to list the www.example.com/subpage versions of his pages, instead of the example.com/subpage versions?

Thanks in advance
DerekH


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