Confused of Choosing www or non-www domain

[Anandz]

Hi All,

I went through the Whiteboard friday: http://moz.com/blog/top-5-seo-questions-from-customers-whiteboard-friday But still need clarification. One of the site that we manage is http://jaihindkalari.com/ ,

1. When we do Google search www.jaihindkalari.com will come up

2. Not yet redirected from non-www to  www

3. All internal links are non-www

4. Google cached non-www

5. page authority ghigh for non-www

Do i need to 301 redirect from non-www to www

[Christy-Correll]

Hi there! I recommend redirecting the www version to the non www version, as you already have your internal links set as the latter, Google has cached this version, it has high authority, etc. You should also set the non www version as the canonical website in Google WMT. Best of luck!

[Sarbs]

Hi Anand, yes you will need to resolve the duplicate url issues. As an extra resource that you may find useful heres a Q&A article from Matt Cutts blog. One of the more interesting responses for your case is that you can just set your webserver to have the non www. version as the default, this helps tell (all) search engines what your prefered format will be and redirects users.

[Dan-Lawrence]

Hi Anand

Yes it looks like you have both versions, the non www and the ww version so could potentially be perceived as duplicate content (2 websites)

You need to choose 1 version and stick with it, so if you would prefer to have the www version then yes 301 the non www version to the www version (or vice versa)

Also for your info you have too many characters in your home page title tag @ 89 characters when you should keep under 70 characters.

Also reduce characters in your meta description tag since currently 189 when you want to be under 155

Hope that helps

All Best

Dan