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When I search my site with "site:domain.com"
there are two search results that both point to the same homepage.
one search result is "www.domain.com" and the other one is "domain.com"
During the making of my site, I had suddenly switched over to wordpress, therefore creating the "www.domain.com" resulting in google with newer site titles and description appearing in the search results (bc i changed them). However, my original (old) template still resides in google results as "domain.com" with the old and original site descriptions and site titles. When I click "cached" for "domain.com" it'll lead me to a snapshot of the old template.
My question for this situation is that when I have my google search results showing me both "domain.com" plus "www.domain.com",and when I click them both, they both lead me to the newest version of my WP site, is that what is supposed to happen? Did I already successfully redirect google from my old homepage to my new one? Or is there something else that I need to do?
Also, what exactly does this .htaccess file tells me? :
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
Thanks for reading, I would appreciate any answers and comments.
You can choose with the new meta tag in the header area:
<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.domain.com/">
or if you want non-www
<link rel="canonical" href="http://domain.com/">
There is an option in Google's Webmaster Tools to specify a canonical.
Best of all is to do a 301 via the .htaccess
I'm not sure what your .htaccess code quoted above does thought it appears to redirect to domain.com/index.htm which is also undesirable.
that .htaccess code checks for existence of the request url as a file or directory and forces a temporary (302) redirect to the index.php script if the requested resource doesn't exist.
