Google listing URLS with wwww and www.www

is this thing common for Google or problem in web server?

[Lalo]

Hi All,

I am facing some strange problem. let me describe here

I am looking at my site listed in google with urls like,

1)http://www.www.mydomain.com
2)http://wwww.mydomain.com
3)http://www.www.mydomain.com/xyz.jsp
4)http://wwww.mydomain.com/xyz.jsp
5)http://www.mydomain.com
6)http://www.mydomain.com/xyz.jsp

my home page listed three time with different variations in www, same thing for most of the pages.

We are using IIS6.0 and Jrun4.0 IIS Server is Maped with Jrun Application server.

In Addition,
Google's Cache of above pages are like

for wwww and www.www same old pages which were replaced few months back in July

for www it is a regular new home page.

Any idea why?

[Charles]

I see about the same for our site. And I also see
[ww.mydomain.com...]

I hope it doesn't give us a duplicate penalty.

[theBear]

Can you actually get to those pages that way or are those listings just in the index and url only?

If they are fully indexed, would you mind skicky mailing your domain name. It looks like there are a couple of things that could be happening.

A wildcard dns setup and lack of redirects would be 1st on my list.

Not good.

[pageoneresults]

I hate to ask the question, but is it possible that there are hard coded links within the site that have those URI structures? I've seen all sorts of things happen when automating certain processes, especially when URIs are being generated.

[theBear]

pageonresults,

Yes that may be part of the problem, however what would really concern me is if the dns/server is resolving all of those fqdns.

[Wizard]

Of course these additional URLs will cause duplicate content penalty. If your server aliases *.domain.com to domain.com so it displays every possible subdomain as your site, it naturally leads to this kind of problem. Anyone who intends to harm your ranking may link to you with such wrong domains making duplicates of your site in Google index.

The only solution is to 301 rewrite from every HTTP_HOST to the canonical one (www or non-www as you wish).

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^www\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [domain.com...] [L,R=301]

[Powdork]

Wizard,
That is for apache. Lalo is on a IIS.
In your httpd.ini file put

RewriteCond Host: ^example\.com
RewriteRule (.*) http\://www\.example\.com$1 [I,RP]

or ask your host to do it if you don't have access. I am by no means an expert (and have never run a windows server), so be sure you know what you are doing and have a tool handy to check the headers afterward to make sure everything is working.

[vordmeister]

An allinurl:wwww. search in google has a few thousand examples of this - some seem to resolve to www. so I'd be guessing it's misspelled links.

Checked my own sites with wwww. Doesn't resolve even with the 301 suggested by powdork. Phew. Don't want any more ways to refer to my URLs.

[Powdork]

I should point out that while I'm not certain, I think the rewrite I gave will only redirect from example.com to www.example.com as opposed to all the other sub-domains, like ww or wwww.

[vordmeister]

Sorry - misinformation from me. I'm using:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^www\.mysite\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*) [mysite.com...] [L,R=301]

I wonder if yours would redirect all subdomains as well where mine allows subdomains. Don't know myself - I just copy this sort of stuff from others then fiddle until it does what I want.

[Lalo]

I checked all pages from site and no internal links found which leads to wwww or www.www.mydomain.com

also these URLS are fully loaded and cached show old pages with new header images as images has been replaced with same file names.

Any clue? I talked to my server admin to check http header and dns but no satisfactory answers.

my site is ranking well in MSN and Yahoo but not in google due to this problem.

[Lalo]

In addition we try to change http header which display following results.

www.mydomain.com (correct site)
wwww.mydomain.com and
www.www.mydomain.com

Message is "You are not Authorized to view this page or Directory"

Does that mean this pages or directory (wwww and www.www)is exist but not authoried to view. I tried www.www.anyotherdomain.com and display is "Page can not display"

[Lalo]

Same listing are available in MSN and Yahoo too.

[AlexK]

Lalo:

Google listing URLS with wwww and www.www
is this thing common for Google or problem in web server?

Yes to both questions.

Lalo:

wwww.mydomain.com and
www.www.mydomain.com
Message is "You are not Authorized to view this page or Directory"

The DNS server for your site is mis-configured.

If you can enter either of the 2 addresses immediately above into a browser, and then receive a response from your site, that means that your DNS server is supplying an IP address for "wrong" web-addresses. You need to give your server admin a damn good tongue-lashing, since s/he is not doing their job properly. Illegal web-addresses do not have IP-addresses associated with them (that is the very definition of "Illegal" in this context).

Lalo:

I tried www.www.anyotherdomain.com and display is "Page can not display"

You are using Internet Explorer, are you not? That will be a problem for you, Lalo, since IE shows so-called friendly error messages, which hide the actual server response. It is important for you to see the headers returned by the server. Mozilla [mozilla.org] is the best browser that I have found for this (requires various extensions/plug-ins). Another alternative is Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer [rexswain.com].