%20www.domain.com

Google's added a space?

[elklabone]

This is a weird one.

Dropped out of Google last week. Was doing a:

site:www.domain.com -asdasdf

And found that several pages, including home page, have been picked up as:

www.domain.com/
%20www.domain.com/

The %20www.domain.com works in IE and displays the regular site. Host is modwest and have contacted them for help, but haven't heard anything back.

Apparently the site was changed after google indexed %20www.domain.com and now Google sees %20www.domain.com as being a near duplicate to www.domain.com an dropped both pages.

ANyone ever heard of this, and how can I remedy this?

Tried to do it with mod_rewrite, but that voodoo is a little too tricky for me.

While we're at it, I'd like to direct domain.com to www.domain.com to keep this from happening in the future....

--Mark

[elklabone]

oops! I see this has already been discussed here [webmasterworld.com].

--Mark

[edited by: jdMorgan at 8:59 pm (utc) on Sep. 26, 2005]
[edit reason] Added link to relevant thread. [/edit]