I recently began SEO on a site thats been around for awhile. I noticed two urls would return the same page, the urls being mysite.com and www.mysite.com. I don't want the search engines to think they are two different sites so I'm thinking of a 301 redirect to send the traffic to www.mysite.com. However, in looking at their keyword rankings from Google, they do well with mysite.com and don't show up at all for www.mysite.com.
Do I force the issue and redirect to the www site, or take Google's lead and redirect any www.mysite.com traffic to mysite.com?
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To Www Or Not To Www, That Is The Question
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Tinabug
, Feb 09 2010 08:14 AM
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Jill
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Posted 09 February 2010 - 09:01 AM
First, check and see if Google already knows they're the same. Go to the one that you don't see indexed, then click on Google's CACHED copy and see if it says, "this is google's cache of....[whichever site].
They may already have it merged with the other site. Since it's not indexed, I'm guessing that's what you'll see.
They may already have it merged with the other site. Since it's not indexed, I'm guessing that's what you'll see.
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