Oliver_Henniges - 7:10 pm on Aug 5, 2006 (gmt 0)

As I mentioned in [webmasterworld.com...] this morning, immediataly after setting my preferences to the www-option, the sitemaps start-page now shows two websites for me, one with and one without www. But I have only one website.

I also added

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain.de [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) [mydomain.de...] [R=301,L]

to my root-htaccess-file a few months ago. I hope to make clear that I wish thee www-version to be the default one, but I have some fears to run into this canonical issue. It would be helpful if one of the googlers could point us to what exactly this feature is aiming at and what is expected from webmasters.

I can't think of any reason why a webmaster would define two different sitemaps for the www and non-www-version, as the sitemaps account would suggest, but correct me if you know any.

Glad to see this topic on the front page of ww.