Duplicate content for www & non-www results
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why would my campaign show duplicate content entries for www & non-www versions of my url?
Here's an example
I have a page called 'mydomain.com/resources/', and the campaign analysis shows it as being duplicate content, with the duplicate being 'www.mydomain.com/resources'.
I don't know where I can adjust this or if it is perhaps related to some other setting, like Google Analytics or something else.
/G
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Are you on a Microsoft or Apache server? The instructions are a little different for each, but you'll want to redirect your non-www to your www (or vice versa). You don't want two different URLs for the same content, which is what is happening right now.
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Hi Andy,
I do use a CMS on this site (my own site) however, it doesn't create duplicate pages.
I don't force or restrict the www prefix at all.
/G
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Thanks Maurizio,
I suspect it's a setting within Google Analytics account that is the route cause in this case.
While pages themselves load with or without www specified, the sitemap.xml and all internally linking do not use the www prefix at all.
I'm aware of forcing it using .htaccess, but looking to see if there's some underlying configuration that I can adjust.
/G
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Hi Gregory,
Is this the only kind of instance of duplicated content? I only ask as some platforms (Wordpress, Joomla) can create duplicate pages which require a bit of work to sort out. These don't tend to be www / non-www issues though.
Andy
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i think that you can use webmaster tools of google, and decide to use you domain with www or without www
you can also redirect with .htacces (linux) - IIS (Windows) to www.domain.com ----> domain.com
or
domain.com------>www.domain.com
after some days the crawler understand that you have only one domain and so you can avoid duplicate content.
Ciao
Maurizio
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