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How to set up GSC for one website with same url but no www?

         

shahhardik499

8:03 pm on May 8, 2020 (gmt 0)

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example is used to keep the name of website confidential, since I dont own the website and just working on it.

I have a website www.example.in.net.
Since the UI of the website was good enough I have created a new website on the same domain but example.in.net (no www).
I have set redirection from old to new link and it is working fine.

I had added search console for www.example.in.net . Now How do I add website in search console in same account, because when I added the website (example.in.net non www one) in search console, its showing me two different urls (example.in.net and www.example.in.net) under same name EXAMPLE one with www. and one without.

I am unable to see any data in new url (example.in.net) search console, old one is showing data but there is huge drop in traffic.

Kindly help, I dont want to loose console data of www.example.in.net and also want to see how example.in.net is performing.

[edited by: not2easy at 4:44 pm (utc) on May 11, 2020]
[edit reason] "example" is used for domain names [/edit]

not2easy

10:25 pm on May 8, 2020 (gmt 0)

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I am not sure how this relates to local search but if you can visit both domains (www.example.in.net and example.in.net - without www) you probably want to decide which one you would prefer to use because Google views them as different and duplicate domains.

You can always add a domain in GSC but you should be ensuring that only one of those domains can be visited. IF you have redirected from the old to the new (www version to non-www version) with a proper rewrite (301) then within a short time, Google will stop showing new data for the old and only new data for the new version. If you insist on trying to have two viewable duplicate domains you will likely lose position on the old version without gaining on the new version. To 'keep' the old data, download it from GSC.

phranque

2:34 am on May 9, 2020 (gmt 0)

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welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], shahhardik499!

do you have properties created in GSC for each of your hostnames?