problems with search engines

[ezhilraja]

why does search engines get confused with http://dzinegarage.com and http://www.dzinegarage.com (the one with www). some pages are indexed twice cause of this problem. when would they fix up this problem.

[Marcia]

Actually, it isn't a problem and they don't need to fix it. For one thing, there have been problems caused by this in the past, so they need to continue to treat them differently.

Technically, they're not the same page.

example.com is the root index main page of a site and www.example.com is in a subdirectory - www is a subdirectory of example.com

That's why they're indexed twice - technically it's the same page, but still 2 pages in 2 different locations. The way we fix it on our end is to redirect one to the other, generally example.com redirected to www.example.com if that's what the site will be using as their main homepage.

[ezhilraja]

i can i redirected it by adding www. i am using iis.

[I, Brian]

On Apache running the mod_rewrite module, if you stick the following in a .htaccess file in your root HTML folder, you can redirect requests from one form to the other:


RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.co.uk$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://www.domain.co.uk%{REQUEST_URI} [R=permanent,L]

The method above simply redirects non-www requests to URLs that include the WWW form in the URL.

[ezhilraja]

dear friend i told its in IIS