Avoid Google "Double Vision"From the perspective of Google and other search engines, www.yourdomain.com and yourdomain.com are two different web sites. This has the effect of splitting SEO credit--and authority--between these two versions of your site URL. Since you spend significant time and effort improving your website, you want all the credit to go into one website address. Website Grader tools check for this issue and highlight any errors in the Website Grader report. You can also test whether you suffer from this problem by opening your web browser and navigating to http://yourdomain.com. If the address in your web browser updates to http://www.yourdomain.com, your site does not have a canonical URL error and no further action is required. If the address remains http://yourdomain.com, you have a canonical URL error and should fix it. Solving URL Canonicalization on ApacheIt's really easy to fix this issue on an Apache. All you need to do is edit your .htaccess file in your root directory and add the following.
This example would make all traffic to yourdomain.com be redirected with the www at the beginning. Solving URL Canonicalization on IISSolving a URL Canonicalization issues on IIS is a little bit more difficult than Apache, but still not very bad and easy enough to resolve in less than five minutes. Instead of rewriting a tutorial this article will provide you with the information that you need. Solving Canonicalization with IIS with SEO friendly 301 redirects |