Cacheing Problem with WWW and without WWW

[SandySEO]

Hello to every one,

Please help me out. I am not able to cache my website with latest Google crawl with www. It's latest cache with www is on 22 Nov and without www it's 15 Dec. Moreover when I see the only text cached with www it shows very old data.

All the site navigation including sitemap is with www. Then why Google always crawl the latest site with out www.?

Please help me.

Thanks,
SandySEO

[ruchirasharma]

Hi,

You need to do the following to ensure all "non www" goodies get transfered to "www":

1. Update the prefered domain in Google Sitemaps (www.googgle.com/sitemaps/)
2. Set a 301 redirect from [yourdomain.com...] to [yourdomain.com...]

This should reflect in Google's next crawl to your site.

- Ruchira

[SandySEO]

Hello Ruchira,

Many thanks for the info. So, if I use 301 re-direct in [abc.com...] to [abc.com,...] then would in the next Google crawl site with www be cached or not? Please confirm me that I have to apply 301 redirect in
[abc.com...] to [abc.com....]

Thanks,
SandySEO

[Vimes]

Hi,

it takes a while for the redirect to be correctly followed and indexed but the 301 redirect from non-www. to www. will eventually be indexed with the url as www.abc.com/

The speed of this has been reported as less than a week to a couple of months and sometimes longer. That unfortuanely is down to your sites Gbot activity.

Vimes

[g1smd]

The non-www URL will continue to show in the index as a Supplemental Result for a year.

This is NOT a problem because any visitor attempting to access that URL will be redirected to the correct version by your server.

The www URL will be indexed and cached more frequently.

It may take a few months for everything to fall into place.