Cannonical Links?
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Hi guys,
I recently started using Moz Analytics's for my site and it has told me that the vast majority (perhaps all) of my pages have duplicate content because Google will be indexing the version both with and without www. in front of it as seperate domains.
I've done some research and have come across a few suggestions of what to do, but i'm not sure which to go with or how to actually implement it.
Any help, advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks
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Bingo.
Good way to do it.
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Hiya,
I recommend the following resource - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/93633
it has some great guides on doing 301 redirects, you should also look into the preferred domain section. Other thing that can help are canonical links to www.
it all depends on your system and what you are comfortable with, i'm sure we can help you if you get a bit lost!
This response was more in depth but Moz decided to block the response!
Best of luck!
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Hi Sam,
The best way to deal with this is to setup 301 redirecting in your .htaccess file, but this depends upon the platform you are using. You want to point all non-www pages to the www versions.
Something like this should do the job for you (replace my domain with yours).
//Rewrite to www
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^inetseo.co.uk[nc]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.inetseo.co.uk/$1 [r=301,nc]-Andy
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