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Google didn't indexed website right

[Mister Bogdan]

Google didn't indexed on of my website right. This website is indexed without www. in front of website name. It is probably because on one webpage I have link to my website without this "www." But at the other hand, A lot of websites link to my website with www., just this one without.

What do you think? Is it better to remain as it is and to change links on other websites not to have www.? Or maybe I have other solution?

[Brett_Tabke]

First, welcome to the site and Google optimization.

Do some digging through the back posts here and you'll see alot of dicussion about this.

There are both technical and nontechnical responses. You can address it by putting a hard redirect from the domain.com to www.domain.com in your htaccess file.

[Mister Bogdan]

Brett,
Thank you..

But my site is the same if you have www. or not...
That is not the problem... Problem is because a lot of websites links to my website with www. like www.mysite.com and my site is indexed as mysite.com and this have big influence on page rank of my website...

[millie]

Exactly, so you need to do what Brett suggests to resolve it.

[Mister Bogdan]

Millie, What part of Brett reply?

[millie]

[putting a hard redirect from the domain.com to www.domain.com in your htaccess file.]

Try searching for "301 permanent redirect" or "301 moved permanently" to find info on how to do this.

[Mister Bogdan]

And what I will get in this case?

[millie]

Not sure what you mean by this? If you mean what is the result of implementing the redirect the answer is that you will be instructing Google that domain.com and www.domain.com are the same and that you wish them to view www.domain.com as your default.

The link that points to domain.com would still be able to refer traffic but wouldn't contribute to your link popularity. Might as well get it changed to point to www.domain.com if you can.

The problem arises because technically the content on domain.com and www.domain.com could be different so Google does not assume they are the same. Sometimes when you have links to both versions the wrong one gets prominence.

[Mister Bogdan]

I see.. Now my only problem is how that /
.htaccess looks like.. :-)

[zeus]

About googlebot - I have not seen it in awaile, but I have seen "mediapartner google", what is that?

[jdMorgan]

As a great aid to finding the answers to these questions --which have been asked many times before-- you might consider adding a Google search box to your WebmasterWorld preferences. This will allow you to easily search WebmasterWorld, and help make you a "power user."

See this thread, titled, Google search form on WW [webmasterworld.com], specifically, message #9.

Example searches:

redirect non-www to www [google.com]

google mediapartners [google.com]

Jim

[mbatta]

"adding a Google search box to your WebmasterWorld preferences."

how do i do this? dont see the option in preferences?