Www vs no-www duplicate fix?
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Hi all, I have more or less published two versions of our site. One on "www" and one without. And of course we uncovered it during our SEO crawl as "duplicate" content/titles. My guess (hope) is this is something that can be easily fixed on the server side, but I don't have a lot of knowledge around it. Does anyone know?
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One more follow up - what about for an IIS server?
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This will make it non www. If you want it to default to www use this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301] -
Quick question on this - will this code set it sobe setting it so the url will read the "www" or without?
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Thank you both for your responses! I was hoping it would be something as simple as this.
Best,
Becky
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also go into Google Webmaster tools and set the www preference under configuration
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Easy fix:
in your .htaccess file, use this
RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^domain\.com RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] Remember to replace domain.com with your domain name. Enjoy!
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