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Should I delete the record of my site with WWW in it?

I currently have both urls of my site listed in google and yahoo siteexplorer etc, there is some difference in the pages that are indexed.

Do I need both, or can I delete the one with the www at the start and then let it find all pages using the new url? I have already set my preferred domain in google but can not see a way to do it in yahoo.

Does this even make a diff to how they will index my site, or is it just so I can access stats etc?

My .htaccess is all set up to remove the www anyways.

Any advice greatly appreciated.

Solution

  • If you use URL rewrite to rewrite your www-URL to your non-www-URL you shouldn't need to delete it. Then, the search engines should only list the non-www-URLs.

    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/url-rewriting-to-prevent-duplicate-urls.html