www.domain.com vs domain.com

yet again

[brakkar]

Since the last update, google thinks mysite.com is different than www.mysite.com even if they show the exact same content.

When I do a search on "mysite" it will first load mysite.com, and then way bellow, I will find another entry of my site other page as if it was a different site.

The problem is that mysite.com has a 0 PR, and www.mysite.com has a PR 6... and since mysite.com is showing in the result instead of www.mysite.com, i'm way downgraded.

I read in the google knowledge base that there might be a way to play with robots.txt to prevent this, and I wish to know how please. I really don't see why google doesn't realize that there is NO difference between the two page. The problem started suddently.

Thanks,
Brakkar

[ThomasB]

You could try some kind of cloaking if you have the possibility to run server-side scripting. If you check on your pages if the requested address contains "www" you can display "index,follow" in your meta-tags, if not you could display "noindex,nofollow" and GB should throw yoursite.com and keep www.yoursite.com

[kaled]

I can't help with this directly, but you should use the ATW (alltheweb.com) link: command to try to locate a link that points to yourdomain.com rather than www.yourdomain.com

I believe that a server configuration change can also solve this problem but I have no experience in this area.

Kaled.

[canuck]

There was a good discussion how to solve this problem recently here by altering your .htaccess file [webmasterworld.com]

- canuck

[johnser]

Was suffering this problem on a new site last week - Gbot crawled all the [domain.com...] URLs when it should have crawled www.domain.com URLs - First time I've ever seen this happening.

Pages are now (since yest) in G with the correct www.domain.com URLs so I think it may have been a glitch they've now sorted?
J

[brakkar]

I used the htaccess trick from the WW link, but this problem has really killed our site.

Our PR6 home page doesn't even show up with our main keyword searches! The traffic has severly dropped.

I hope that now that we've setup the htaccess redirect, we will be back for the next GG dance :(.

Cordially,
Brakkar