Site listed twice in Google Webmaster and showing different results.

[ryanheller6]

Hello Members,

Need immediate help of you.

I have website and i have listed it to google websmaster tool, unfortunately i have listed my website twice one is with www and one is with non www into the google webmaster tool. Both profiles are showing different different results. I have redirected the non www url to www. but still google webmaster is showing different results for crawl errors, index status and even when I have looked into the google with "site:http://example.com & site:http://www.example.com. I got both search results different.

Please help me out to resolve this issue.

Thanks

[aakk9999]

Hello ryanheller6 and welcome to WebmasterWorld!

What you describe is NOT a problem. Ideally, you should list your site twice, and only if you list it with and without www, you can tell Google whether you prefer www or non-www version.

It is normal that both sites will show different results with regards to crawling, index status etc. After all, non-www is redirecting to www so it is expected that Google crawls and indexes www version and not non-www version.

Having non-www version in Google Webmaster Tools allows you to see if there are any problems with your site in general that you should be fixing. For example, if your redirect stop working, you will suddenly get many more URLs indexed from non-www version. Equally, if you recently introduced redirect from non-www to www then you can look whether the number of indexing pages on non-www version is dropping to see whether Google is processing the redirect.

So in short: this is nothing to worry about, follow your site in WMT under www version (and every now and again cast an eye on non-www version of the site).

[netmeg]

How long ago did you do your redirect? If they're both showing up in the site: command, and if you did it relatively recently, it may take a few weeks for Google to get rid of all the non-www versions.

[not2easy]

If you can access your site with and without www, so can Google and they will crawl both versions. Make sure that you have a proper www - non www 301 redirect in place and if you have an .htaccess file in any folders/directories, it must be added again in that htaccess. If you make any changes like this you should also resubmit your sitemaps.

[lucy24]

if you have an .htaccess file in any folders/directories, it must be added again in that htaccess

It's only necessary to repeat the rule if a nested htaccess contains RewriteRules (or simply the statement "RewriteEngine on") of its own.