Problem with SERP listing

[maxkay]

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Hi guys,

I was wondering what you make of this? I've made this site gardenpowertools / org /uk. When I put the search term "garden power tools" into google, it comes up on page 2 which I'm very happy with because it's so new! But... when it shoes the address, there isn't a www. in front of the web address. Is this bad? And why's this happening is it likely to be how I've setup my hosting, or is it the wordpress setup?

Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.

Max

[Barry]

Does your website exist with the www. (seems obvious but thought I would ask)

If so just create a google webmaster account and you can set how google lists your site (ie with or without the www)

Ta

Baz

[Richard101]

I believe it to be perfect as it gets around the issue of duplicate content associated with having a domain that resolves to both www and without. It is also the reason why wp set it up that way

If you want to have the www prefix then go to settings in wordpress and add www. to the wordpress blog url box.

Just in case you didn't know the lawn mower buy links go to blank pages but I think you may know that already

[maxkay]

Am still a bit fuzzy on the duplicate content thing

I setup the addon domain in my hosting as gardenpowertools / org / uk (no www)

Typing in both www / gardenpowertools / org / uk and gardenpowertools / org /uk both end up going to gardenpowertools / org / uk

Does that mean that it has no duplicate content and is all good?

Cheers for pointing out the dodgy links - working on improving the site now and getting rid of the problems!

Max

[losdev]

you hosting with 1&1 by any chance?

[Richard101]

Typing in both www / gardenpowertools / org / uk and gardenpowertools / org /uk both end up going to gardenpowertools / org / uk

Does that mean that it has no duplicate content and is all good?

Exactly

[Barry]

After reading your first post again.

No its not bad if you are listed without the www. If you are happy with it then its fine to leave as it is.

Ta

Baz

[mtuffin]

It's a wordpress setting

Click on Settings--> General. Change WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL) to have a www. before hand if you prefer it that way.

Mike

[maxkay]

Thanks for all your help guys. Just to clarify it doesnt matter which way round I have it setup, its just for personal preference? Is google going to get confused if I change the setting now?

[mtuffin]

Google doesn't mind which way round it is.

Just make sure if you're using www. all your links point to www. and if you're not then make sure they dont use it.

Mike

[losdev]

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

Ensure this is in your htaccess file too.

:tup

[maxkay]

Cheers guys!

Does that htaccess code forward www to non-www? How would you go about doing it the other way round out of interest?

[Andrew Starr]

Cheers guys!

Does that htaccess code forward www to non-www? How would you go about doing it the other way round out of interest?

This is what I use to redirect non-www to www

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

I'm not sure what the different outcome would be compared to losdev's code as this was written for me, but this has always worked for my sites.

[tan111]

Thank for your explanation! I had such problem and now I try to understand it