Different Rankings

[juergen]

What does this mean:

http : // domain ranks 3 in google
http : // www . domain ranks 4 in google



Both directed same, no difference at all... ! Would that mean that links to http : //www. domain are treated different to http : //domain ?

Both have same DNS A Entries.

this needs extra studies on google university Any idea ?

Juergen

[Heiko H.]

Hi Juergen,

just an idea.

"www.domain.tdl" is a subdomain of the domain "domain.tdl". //fact
May be there is anywhere a link to "domain.tdl" and somewhere else a link to "www.domain.tdl".
Google recognizes this as two different sites and has subscripted your side twice.
Do not ask me why the results are different.

Try
site:domain.tdl

as google search string and you will see which pages are indexed.
may be you can find your sites twice once with leading "www." and once without. //schulterzuck...


Heiko.

[ArtiAge]

Hi Jürgen,

vielleicht hilft dies:

RewriteEngine on

# Verhindert bei Google sog. DoubleContent
# Google erkennt das es zwei Domains mit dem identischen
# Inhalt gibt und bewertet diese Seiten etwas schlechter
# 2. Zeile sagt welche Domain auf welche geleitet werden soll
# In diesem Fall wird "domain.tld" auf "www.domain.tld"
# umgeleitet.
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.tld$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.tld/$1 [L,R=301]


Ref.: Apache URL Rewriting Guide: Canonical Hostnames

Viel Glück,
Arti

[Peekay]

I don't read German, but if the above means 'add an .htaccess file to your site root directory to redirect requests for http://example.com to http://www.example.com then I agree!

I believe it is important for SEO not to have both 'http' and 'www' access to a site.

DF6IH's ranking report seems to bear that out.

[Jensensen]

hi folks,

for that case (http://www.server is the same as http://server)
google Webmaster Tools lets you chose the 'preferred domain'

--> Diagnostic --> Preferred domain

set either to with 'www' or not

greetz

[juergen]

so what ?

prefered domain ? I have an extra Entry for "www" in the nameserver ...hihi should try whats happening if I kick this out

[Peekay]

You must have 'www' in DNS, otherwise nobody will find 'www.example.com', but for best results in Google, you should use .htaccess to block (redirect) 'http//example.com'.