How come the results in Google vary with domains
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Hello,
How is everyone doing? My question is about the google search engine results page. How come some results have the www. in front of them and some don't. Also what are the SEO implications of having www. in front of your search results vs. not. Is this something to do with canonical? I have included a screen shot so you will see what I mean. One result is www.gearyi.com and the result without the www is ingenexdigital.com.
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It does not matter if you make the wwww or non www the canonical. you need to 301 redirecet the other.
If you mean use a canonical tag, using the canonical tag does not move the users to the prefered version of your domainname. so someone copying a link will copy the wrong version.
If you have a windows server i have some easy to follow tutorials here.
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Alan,
Thank you for answering my question so quickly. What are the advantages to using a 301 redirect vs. making the www page the canonical one?
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the www is not needed and not eveyone uses it. www and non-www are 2 different pages as far as google is concerned.
you should have a 301 redirect from one to the other so that you do not split your rank.
Choose if you want www or not, then do a 301 redirecet to that version, with a 301 redirecet any links pointing to the wrong version will be redirected to the correct version, but it will lose a little link juice in the redirect, but better than the rank being split between 2 versions
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