Google indexes my website twice..why?

[gmaister22]

Hello guys,

for some reason google indexes my website twice. What i mean by that is that it indexes a domain.com version and a www.domain.com version! (Why!?)

In webmaster tools, i have added both versions (www.domain.com and domain.com) and i have set the preferred domain to be the one with the www. in front!

Whats going wrong? :S

 

[cvrle77]

is your website wordpress based? check these in general section:

 

[mRAza]

just use one URL, with or without www. Google sees them as being two different addresses. It can effect your ranking. search on google your term "with or without www" you will find a lot of related articles.
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[gmaister22]

yes what can how can i fix it now?

it appears like that on google

 

[gmaister22]

just use one URL, with or without www. Google sees them as being two different addresses. It can effect your ranking. search on google your term "with or without www" you will find a lot of related articles.
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somebody told me that

because both of them are returning a 200 ok.

you need to 301 redirect one to the other, pick a preferred version. OR at the very least, use rel=canonical meta tags.

 

[mRAza]

add this line in .htaccess of your root folder, it will redirect all www to non-www

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

or if you wants with www in URL

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^[^.]+\.[^.]+$
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301]

 

[gmaister22]

mRAza i have done that in my cPanel, have a look:
[SLIDE]http://puu.sh/6UEj[/SLIDE]

 

[mRAza]

well i have not used cpanel much so i am not sure how it works but by look of your image i think you need to give just www.domain.com not complete URL http://www.domain.com/ in Redirect Url field.

 

[gmaister22]

i get

 

[mRAza]

ok then i am not sure about cpanel, might some other cpanel user can help you, else you can always add code in your htaccess i provided above.

 

[gmaister22]

thanks
by the way is there a way to test if what i did is correct and it works? if not ill do your method , but just out of curiosity

 

[mRAza]

thanks
by the way is there a way to test if what i did is correct and it works? if not ill do your method , but just out of curiosity

yes you can test, if you set non-www to goto www then if you visit http://domain.com it will auto redirect you to http://www.domain.com , if its not redirecting that means its not working.

 

[gmaister22]

Well it has been always been redirecting me to www.domain.com when i was visiting domain.com :S

 

[mRAza]

Well it has been always been redirecting me to www.domain.com when i was visiting domain.com :S

when did you setup this redirect? if its new you have to wait for google to pick your new index location.

 

[gmaister22]

like today... i think at least anyhow..ill wait and see...how long does it take for google to index it?

 

[JmZ]

DERPALICIOUS.

but yeah www is a subdomain, just like xyz.yoursite.com or omfgthisisasubdomain.yoursite.com.
so google treats it as such, meaning 2 sites.