Thanks to BigG for pointing me to ‘Woorank’ which analyses sites, I understand some of it (about 10%) but this is something I’d not come across:
"Be sure that http://lionhearttravel.com and http://www.lionhearttravel.com are not running in parallel.
Redirecting requests from a non-preferred hostname is important because search engines consider URLs with and without “www” as two different websites.
Once your preferred domain is set, use a 301 redirect for all traffic to your non-preferred domain."
Anyone able to explain this please - many thanks … Roger
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http://www.seo-consultant-services.co.uk/301-redirects-www-non-www-canonical-problems.html is an excellent read on such things, but to give yourself a quick check, go to google and enter the following:
site:http://lionhearttravel.com
and you will see that you have a problem with how Google is seeing your site - both as lionhearttravel.com and www.liohearttravel.com ie: duplicate content - which is bad.
That link will give you full and proper instructions on how to prevent that from happening.
HTH
Jonathan
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As a scale of things it’s not as bad as bad website content. Many sites get reasonable results without juggling 301’s
I can’t believe Google has not sussed out this issue from the millions of sites with the potential of duplicate content like this.
Google will make a decision which is the right URL to use, which just might be wrong, this is when you step in with a 301 to guide it. icing on the cake
BTW; If you make your site map on our hosting site map function, there is a choice via a drop-down, to make/submit the site map either www. on not. Then job done Google knows which URL to index. And remember to go back and re-make/submit if you add pages or re-name them!
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On 18 Jan 2011, at 17:39, Jonathan Riddle wrote:
and you will see that you have a problem with how Google is seeing your site - both as lionhearttravel.com and www.liohearttravel.com ie: duplicate content - which is bad.
That link will give you full and proper instructions on how to prevent that from happening.
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