Www. part of url not showing on google search results.
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When typing in fun translator into google UK, my website www.funtranslator.com is the 18th result on the 2nd page, however, there is an issue, it only shows funtranslator.com, without the www part, which is not what I want because the whole address to show up, because my campaign on seomoz pro and webmaster tools account is www.funtranslator.com not funtranslator.com.
How can I resolve this.
For not, I have a redirect that goes from funtranslator to www.funtranslator.com
I want to know how to get the full www.url into the results instead of just url.com without the www part of the url.
Also, will this affect my stats gathered in my campaign on my seomoz pro account?
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Hi Ryan,
It appears that Google indexed the non www version of your page before you put the redirect in place (I am assuming that it is a 301 redirect you have used).
The problem with waiting for Google to correct the index via the 301 is that the likelihood of it being crawled very often is extremely low. There are two reasons for this
- There is only the one page accessible. No internal links leading to other pages in the site and only one link to an external site from that page.
- There is absolutely no text on the page for Googlebot (or Roger Mozbot) to crawl (the bots can't read what is written in the images)
Basically, the lack of content is providing no evidence that the bot should return very often. The bot is pretty much seeing an empty page.
The redirect is working fine, so as long as it is a permanent redirect (301) then you are good, but the main reason for using it is to consolidate all of your URL's into one. This avoids duplicate content issues and makes sure that search engines don't get confused and treat them as different sites. Both are Still valid and will work.
As to wanting Google to adjust the index so that it appears as www,funtranslator.com, if you have set it up in your Google Webmaster Tools account, go to Site Configuration, choose settings and set the preferred domain name to the WWW version.
That is the best you can do to send them the signal that you wish to use that as the preferred domain. If you don't have webmaster tools set up, then you will need to add and verify the site first.
I can't see that this will be a problem for SEOmoz, since Roger Mozbot crawls the site directly. He doesn't need Google to tell him what to do.
If you want to check this for sure, just email the help team - help [at} seomoz.org and ask them to confirm.
Hope that helps.
Sha
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