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Google Says Index This!
August 17, 2006
Recently, the Wagon has noticed a new option at play over at Google Sitemaps. Next time you're in the area, click on Preferred Domain.
Google is giving you the opportunity to choose whether you would like your urls listed with or without the www (http://www.yoursite.com or http://yoursite.com). Google follows this opportunity with the following note:
Once you specify your preference here, it may take some time for changes to be reflected in our index. While Google doesn't guarantee that we'll show your URLs in the form that you prefer, we will use your choice as a suggestion to improve our indexing.
We think this is important for a few simple reasons. Google is trying to improve its index of your site, and they are allowing you to help them. Further, Google is acknowledging that the www vs. non-www indexation issue is causing duplicate pages to appear in its index. And finally, and most importantly, Google is telling us that sites can improve their indexation by clearing up the www. vs. non-www issue.
Click over there to learn how to 301 redirect non-www pages to their www equivalent, or vice versa.
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posted by Tom Lustina at August 17, 2006 4:56 PM
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