Change in OSE?
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Hi
My site http://sassandgrace.co.uk has a 301 direct from the www. version as recommended and, up until last week, OSE showed no results for the www version with a message of some kind saying about the re-direct.
This week the message has disappeared and I have half my links (still v small) on www version and half on the non version.
Has something changed? Should I be worried? And what, if anything, should I do?
Thanks
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Hi Sam,
First of all, congrats on the lovely site
DON'T PANIC!
OSE does not represent live results as it is linked to the Mozscape Index, which updates about once a month (There was on update on Jan 26th and the next one is due around Feb 28th).
Discussed here: https://mza.seotoolninja.com/help/guides/research-tools/open-site-explorer/updates
For latest and pending update information, go here: https://mza.seotoolninja.com/products/api/updates
If you want to do a quick check to see whether your site is showing for both www and non-www variants, do a search for:
**site:sassandgrace.co.uk **(with no spaces)
and you'll see what Google has indexed.
Interestingly, there is one reference within Google's results for the www. version:
**www.sassandgrace.co.uk/blog-detail.html **which is a remnant from development as it contains lorem ipsum text.
If the redirects have been created manually it's easy to see why this would be overlooked.
Best practice would be to create a global redirect rule from the www to non-www. version of your site.
Read this for some solid best practices when dealing with redirects: https://mza.seotoolninja.com/learn/seo/redirection
You can also indicate that non-www. version is your preferred version of the site in Google Search Console.
That stray page aside, I'd have no concerns. Check back in OSE after the next update and see if everything hasn't settled down.
Good Luck!
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