WWW to Non-WWW = Less Indexing?
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Hi all,
About 10 months ago we changed all of our urls to redirect to a non-www vs. the www because it was creating both iterations and therefore duplicate content.
We didn't change anything in Webmaster Tools and it looks like our indexing went down significantly. Is this a problem? How can I fix it? *It looks like GWT also went through an update at that time?
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If both the www. and non-www. URLs were being indexed - creating duplicates for nearly every page on your website - then the significant drop in number of pages indexed makes sense.
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Hi Becky,
How did you do the redirects?
Did you generate a new sitemap?
Is there anything that would block crawling the non www version?
Do you still have www links on any of your pages? (typically this isn't an issue because most people use relative linking but figured I'd ask).
A quick note www. and non www are considered two different sites just as http and https are.
Hope to help
Don
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