setting preferred URL

[Auraminds]

Hi Guys,

Say I have a site www.abc.com and it opens with abc.com also, means without www.

Now I don't want to implement a 301 redirect from non www to www domain. Can I still set my preferred domain as www.abc.com in the webmasters tool of google?

Thanks In advance

[piatkow]

Yes.
Google actually seems to recognise that some mass market hosting services don't let you put in redirects and the preferred domain setting provides a partial resolution of canonical issues.

[Auraminds]

tx

[phranque]

welcome to WebmasterWorld [webmasterworld.com], Auraminds!

the best solution is a 301 response but you can also use the canonical meta tag to specify your canonical domain.

[Auraminds]

how do we use the canonical meta tag?

[phranque]

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