September 14, 2006
Google Webmaster Tools Adds “WWW” Issue
Now when you login to your Google Webmaster Tools account (formerly Google Sitemaps) you will have a new option on the left, “Preferred Domain”. This will allow you to set a preference of Google displaying your site in their index as www.domain.com, domain.com or no preference.
Many are stating that this will finally correct the issue of the canonical duplicate content, however, if you look at this feature, it is only an issue of how they are displayed in Google’s index, not how Google indexes your site.
Stay on the safe site, use the 301 redirect in your .htaccess file in order to not only ensure that the dup content issue doesn’t sting you, but to ensure that your domain always properly displays the “www” in every URL.
It just looks cleaner.
Filed under Google by Jerry West
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