10yr old Domain, Conflicting Message from Webmaster tools/Google search
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This is the first time I have encountered this and am quite frankly a little baffled on how to proceed.
We have some domains that are 10 years old, and do get some hits / impressions and they have a lot of content. So I redid the site in wordpress etc...
Anyway, on Google the sites show up as www. , and on Webmaster tools,- the www. shows no impressions or anything, while the non-www domain shows up in google webmaster tools with data.
The question is, if google displays the site as www. and webmaster tools shows data for non www. Which one do I proceed with, finding info on this has been pretty hard to do.
Any input is appreciated,
Thanks in advance:)
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Cool, seems like www. is the way to go. Good luck!
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the domain in question is www.bestpriceelectricity.com
www is set in wordpress and webmaster tools
Shortly after i posted this, I saw in open site explorer that the www. had more value over the non www .... These sites are super old, and still get 'some traffic' but haven't been updated in ages. So my main focus was to regenerate the content w/ all the proper tags and what not and submit for indexing. - > and yes i also did do 301 redirects on the .htm pages
Thanks for the response, I think the fact that it is a very old domain - that google had some type of stats on it for the domain, but no preference of www vs non www. Just had never seen this before.
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What is your site using?
Make sure to have the site always running on www. or non-www.
Also set the preferred domain within WMT, and select www or non-www.
If you need help selecting it, just do random searches of popular organic traffic and see what those links show up as on the SERP.
Once you have a conclusion of what Google SERP shows, select that type and make sure to arrange it within your .htaccess to keep it consistent.
www. and non-www. can cause problems with duplicate content and confusion with search engines.
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