Comments on: How to Set Your Preferred Domain and Double the Power of Your Backlinks https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks Fri, 24 Nov 2023 16:45:12 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jazz https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-3187 Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:39:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-3187 Iam Facing a problem on one of my website http://howprices.com/ . https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f65d5e74afd4d1e8d1e027cf15a62f2b861cbb690907ceb35e148ba978272158.png

]]> By: gyan https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-3155 Wed, 07 Jun 2017 08:24:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-3155 Nice and simple way of explaining but still there is problem while Preferring domain – Part of the process of setting a preferred domain is to verify that you own http://example.com/. Please verify http://example.com/., although i have verified already

]]> By: Victor Opeyemi Adegoke https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-3146 Tue, 30 May 2017 15:40:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-3146 It is very simple
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]]> By: Seth Anurag https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-3131 Fri, 12 May 2017 18:41:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-3131 Insightful, simple and effective ! I was able to do it in 5 mins. ! Great.

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]]> By: tolu https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-3066 Mon, 03 Apr 2017 07:38:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-3066 folow @ http://mp4view.com.ng

]]> By: Nnamdi Nwankwo https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-3051 Tue, 28 Mar 2017 14:00:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-3051 Hi, I really got some useful insight from your article. Until now, I was never keen to setting my preferred domain name, but I see reasons why I should and I have to my 2 websites, www. makemeonlinemoney.com and http://www.howtobuildthatbody.com.

I also added the other 3 versions of my website since I recently added SSL and I hope that it will not hurt my websites’s ranking? Particularly the http://www.makemeonlinemoney.com has been suffering a setback in indexing and ranking because I foolishly made a mistake in my webmaster tool and it took me almost 2 years to find out, but I have rectified that now. I hope that Google will rank it quickly as it long over due for real traffic.

If you do get back to me regards to this I will really appreciate.

Nnamdi

]]> By: manohar https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2984 Wed, 08 Feb 2017 17:25:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2984 you are providing awesome information, thank you so much for updating this much of information it is very use full to my website http://www.eaadhaaruidai-gov.in

]]> By: malik shahruk https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2954 Mon, 16 Jan 2017 09:44:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2954 I have verified ownership of both .my website is hosted on aws ec2 ubuntu server and dns managed by Cloudflare. I have edited .htaccess file many time by googling yet no luck. i want to redirect coupona.in to http://www.coupona.in as it is my preferred domain. Please help me with this asap. i have used below code in my .htaccess file

# BEGIN WordPress

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.coupona.in [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://coupona.in/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^index.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

# END WordPress

# Wordfence WAF

Require all denied

Order deny,allow
Deny from all

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]]> By: tammy.jackson https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2880 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 15:17:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2880 One yr have passed since I decided to quit my previous work and it was a best decision i made in my life… I started freelancing online, over a site I stumbled upon online, several hrs a day, and I make much more than i did on my previous job… Payment i got for last month was for Nine thousand bucks… Awesome thing about this job is that i have more time with my kids…
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]]> By: Suman Jaipal https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2872 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:14:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2872 Nice post,
Clear steps, I did it for my site wordshosting.com, now google searching fine.
Thanks
Suman

]]> By: jenniferblackburn91 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2832 Sat, 26 Nov 2016 07:18:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2832 It’s been 1 yr since I finally resigned from my last work and it was a best decision i made in my life… I started freelancing from comfort of my house, for this company I found on-line, several hours each day, and my income now is much bigger then it was on my office work… My last month check was for 9 thousand bucks… Awesome thing about this job is that i have more free time with my family… http://chilp.it/728813e

]]> By: Andres CJ https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2540 Wed, 02 Nov 2016 04:18:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2540 Hello,

Great post, thank you for the info. I have a question. My website didn’t have redirects so the two versions (www and non-www) were indexed by Google. I changed the redirection from http://etherworks.com.au to http://www.etherworks.com.au some weeks ago.
Few days after doing that the ranked non-www pages disappear and the www versions appeared but 80 positions below in the ranking. Weeks have passed now but those ranking have just oscillated without clear signing of recovery.
Do you have an idea how long it could take to recover the ranking?
Regards.

]]> By: Triangle Towing https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2400 Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:55:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2400 Awesome post. Is there a way to verify the redirect is working? I am redirecting http://www.triangletowing.com to triangletowing.com. Both URLS work and google allowed me to prefer the non-www version, however I was wondering if I should see the URL change in the browser when i try to access the WWW version?

]]> By: Mohamed Hanif https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2399 Tue, 11 Oct 2016 05:53:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2399 In reply to Crackor Squad.

Use .htaccess second metric file to redirect

]]> By: REB Jhaspher https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2369 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 02:37:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2369 Hi,

This topic is great but i have problem applying it to my WordPress website on GoDaddy. I tried to add the code on .htaccess file but when i save it and tried to test my website url it got error that says to many redirect until it .com instead of .co. My website is http://phidealhomes.co, I want it to redirect to http://www.phidealhomes.co. Do you i need to buy new domain name? How can I solve this problem? Thank you

]]> By: florence.bowers https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2288 Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:13:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2288 I currently make roughly 6 thousand-8 thousand dollars monthly with my internet task. Those who are eager to do easy freelance tasks for 2h-5h every day from your sofa at home and gain good income for doing it… Test this invitation http://korta.nu/NDe

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]]> By: Matthew Barrand https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2220 Mon, 19 Sep 2016 14:15:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2220 In reply to Man With a Van.

Hi Tony, I just wondered …did you accommodate all 3 versions in your 301 redirects?

]]> By: Kathir Vel https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2167 Sun, 11 Sep 2016 11:33:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2167 thanks recently i migrated from http to https. now i want to check whether all 3 is redirecting to main url https://webhostingdeals.blackfriday/ or not. I mean both versions of HTTP and Https WWW.
Regards,
Kathir

]]> By: Jorge Muchacuar https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2142 Sun, 21 Aug 2016 13:41:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2142 Hi i want to poit this https://www.educlique.com/directory to https://www.educlique.com

how do?

]]> By: Crackor Squad https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2129 Sun, 14 Aug 2016 08:03:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2129 I wants to redirect crackorsquad.in to http://www.crackorsquad.in/ but not any option to set preffred domain , help me out

]]> By: Crackor Squad https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2128 Sun, 14 Aug 2016 08:02:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2128 link please

]]> By: Marijke Blake https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2126 Fri, 12 Aug 2016 17:32:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2126 Hi, Thanks for this very useful information. I changed the settings on my .htaccess file and on Google Console. Never knew that this affected my ranking on Google. Setting up a website is the easy part. The difficult part comes afterwards (so many different aspects to consider). My site is http://pet-fashion.co.uk (hope that I’m allowed to mention this).

]]> By: Jason Ma https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2073 Tue, 19 Jul 2016 19:25:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2073 In reply to rayan.

I think you have to verify the version without the www (awesomecoders.co.in). Pretty much add that as a new site, and verify ownership like you did with the www version. Then you should be able to change the preferred domain. This is because WMT reads both versions as separate entities, so it needs to know that you own both. I had the same problem and this was how I fixed my site.

]]> By: rayan https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2060 Tue, 05 Jul 2016 04:35:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2060 When I am selecting the “Display url as www” version its showing like this…

Anyone please help me !!!

]]> By: Asbah Adil https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2018 Mon, 06 Jun 2016 07:01:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2018 In reply to Marvin Russell.

Thanks Marwin..for your response to the query regarding my website http://www.sgmi.in

]]> By: Marvin Russell https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2006 Wed, 01 Jun 2016 14:35:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2006 In reply to Asbah Adil.

It’s better if you set a preferred domain and only link to that one. It may or may not hurt you if you don’t do this.

]]> By: Asbah Adil https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-2005 Wed, 01 Jun 2016 11:34:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-2005 Dear Marvin…Thanks for such a valuable post..!!.. Here I want to ask you that I own a website http://www.sgmi.in and regularly use this url for link generation or back-links without using non www version that is sgmi.in even a single time. Is it compulsory for me choose a preferred domain because I never use a non www. version??

]]> By: Marvin Russell https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1981 Fri, 20 May 2016 15:45:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1981 In reply to Christopher Gearhart.

It could be a couple days or much shorter.

]]> By: Christopher Gearhart https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1977 Fri, 20 May 2016 02:31:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1977 Once I update my preference (www.) how long does it take to show up in search results? My issue is an old site – http://www.paumactubing.com – if you search “Paumac Tubing” Goggle lists the domain without the www, some clients are saying the site does not open…???

]]> By: Broken-Net https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1944 Tue, 17 May 2016 05:18:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1944 Absolutely awesome article. It greatly helped me decide to go with the non www version of my website broken-net.com . Thank you kindly for the great knowledge.

]]> By: Lohith S https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1927 Mon, 09 May 2016 07:28:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1927 After reading this post i was able to rectify my problem…. Thanks Marvin…..
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]]> By: Marvin Russell https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1923 Tue, 03 May 2016 14:00:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1923 In reply to Josh.

I had this happen before. It sucks switching multiple times. Be patience with Google, they will eventually index the right pages again. I would use webmaster tools and your htaccess file to tell google what’s going on. Not sure about the sitemap, but it should not hurt.

]]> By: Josh https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1921 Mon, 02 May 2016 20:47:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1921 Question, we just set up SSL https, which is unsupported by my platform (apparently) without the www. I changed my preferred URL to www. I already set up a search console before and had my preferred url without the www. Now that i have to switch back…do i need to upload my sitemap to the other search console website and treat it as if i was doing it from there all along?

]]> By: Don Cyber https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1854 Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:54:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1854 Thanks for sharing this great post. My own problem is that when ever i search site:techlector.com on google it brings results,but when www is added to it, nothing is found… how can i fix this?

]]> By: Richerd Miller https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1847 Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:34:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1847 Domain names have to be chosen with a lot of care. Having a .com domain do help the business to grow as it is the most preferred domain among user.

Apart from simply buying the .com one, it is always advisable to buy the .net, .biz, .org and other top-level domain variations of your domain name. That prevents other businesses from purchasing them and creating confusion for your customers or site visitors. And it makes it more likely that another site could out-rank your site for your domain name.

]]> By: Blair Pettrey https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1831 Tue, 29 Mar 2016 19:06:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1831 This was super helpful, thank you!!!

]]> By: Marvin Russell https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1777 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:38:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1777 In reply to Matt Cassarino.

Submit and manage your preferred domain. Remove the other one or leave it alone. I hope that helps 🙂

]]> By: Matt Cassarino https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1774 Thu, 10 Mar 2016 05:24:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1774 Thanks for this helpful tutorial. I was able to set my preferred domain in Google Search Console only after adding both versions of my site: http://www.apartmentsites.com and http://apartmentsites.com — which is kind of annoying seeing two instances of my site there. It’s as if Search Console is treating them as different sites, e.g. allowing me to submit sitemaps for each. I was hoping that once I selected my preferred domain (the www. version) the non-www. version would go away. Any suggestions?

]]> By: gkworlds https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1735 Sun, 14 Feb 2016 14:02:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1735 As per your instruction I set my site as http://www.gkworlds.com & its working fine on google search engine.Thanks for the suggestion.

]]> By: Liz https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1734 Sun, 14 Feb 2016 03:04:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1734 In reply to Harris.

…I’ve never been hosted with GoDaddy, but for the record: managed hosting should allow .htaccess editing. A managed host who doesn’t allow it seems so, so pointless. (And I am kind of a host now, so…)

]]> By: tampasounds https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1602 Sat, 12 Dec 2015 11:47:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1602 Google is broken
I have added all 3 versions of my site in search console. In site settings i have set the preferred domain for each of those to the non www version. I have set my htaccess as described and tested it successfully. Google has still managed to index 2030 pages for my little 56 page website…Now what ?

]]> By: Harris https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1525 Mon, 26 Oct 2015 13:08:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1525 I set my preferred domain on google webmaster tool, but it’s again showing both www and non www versions of site on google. I have a managed wordpress hosting on godaddy. And they said you cannot access to your htacess file because there is no any option in managed hosting. Then i applied the second way and changed the preferred domain to www on WBT but unfortunateli it’s again showing both results. My Site is new and there’s not much traffic. I just want to ask can i show just only www version of site on google.

]]> By: Carlos Kiko Medina https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1395 Thu, 30 Jul 2015 03:36:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1395 How is “link juice” affected if people that link to you don’t use what you choose as the preferred domain? So if I choose non www but most half of the links that others give me on their site use www how does that affect my “link juice”?

]]> By: Asim https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1356 Wed, 08 Jul 2015 06:51:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1356 Hello
I am using non-www domain for my blog on blogspot, do i need to set the preferred domain. If yes, then how could i do this, since GWT says “Restricted to root level domains only”. If not, then what domain is preferred automatically(i made a blog with non-www version)
Thanks

]]> By: Danny_7thmedia https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1290 Wed, 10 Jun 2015 04:20:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1290 Good Notes on www. and non-www. Though I’m having a hard time figuring domains not on redirects.

What if the old site is example.au and the new is example.com. I didn’t redirect the old site but I have a 404 information guiding them to the new site. Should I point also my example.au on google set domain and change to example.com on my google site settings? Or How do I go about it.

]]> By: Manika Saha https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1243 Thu, 07 May 2015 07:31:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1243 Hello.. I am in trouble. I have added my site as abc.com on webmaster.
and don’t know how missed to set preferred domain. now I can not see any
data on my webmasters tool. can you please tell how can I change that?
For that I have to delete site and add it again or I can edit that? I
have done 301 redirection. I would like to prefer my site as a
http://www.abc.com please help!

]]> By: usagi https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1217 Mon, 20 Apr 2015 14:04:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1217 In reply to Marvin Russell.

thank you Marvin. I´ll do it and come back ^^

]]> By: Marvin Russell https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1216 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 12:36:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1216 In reply to usagi.

Hi Usagi,

If you …

1. verified both domains (www and non www) in Webmaster tools, and
2. you have set the preferred domain, and
3. you are sure Google indexed the preferred domain properly. (Just check Google’s index to be sure the right one is verified.)

…then you can remove the non preferred domain, or keep it. It doesn’t matter. Personally I would delete it.

]]> By: usagi https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1215 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 12:18:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1215 In reply to Permana Jayanta.

Same question here and haven´t found the answer on internet yet.
If my prefered domain is not using www. and I have verified both, what should I do with the http://www.version of my site? Delete the site on webmastertools?

]]> By: Marvin Russell https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1201 Sat, 11 Apr 2015 16:05:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1201 In reply to G Web Pro.

Of course, but SEO is like a detailed recipe. Sure you can leave the pinch of salt out, but it may taste a little different.

]]> By: Marvin Russell https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1200 Sat, 11 Apr 2015 16:04:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1200 In reply to Ian.

I would do both.

]]> By: Ian https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1199 Sat, 11 Apr 2015 15:33:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1199 Thanks for the helpful article.

Do both versions of the web page need to be fully configured in Web Master Tools?

]]> By: G Web Pro https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1170 Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:52:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1170 Nice post. Well for me if you still do not set preferred domain Google can still catch the reputation of a website whether a website opens with or without www. I see many websites ranking well that open in both www and non-www.

]]> By: Sarah Wild https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1165 Sat, 28 Mar 2015 13:49:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1165 Hi, I am trying to go to one domain, (1 x www & 1 no-www). I need to verify my www domain on google but I can only find the non-www in my ftp. Am I missing something? Thanks

]]> By: Reset Technologies https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1163 Thu, 26 Mar 2015 12:13:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1163 In reply to Nitin Malik.

Hi Nitin thanks for your reply, actually i made spelling mistake and now i had corrected. hope you get my point

]]> By: Nitin Malik https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1161 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 18:15:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1161 In reply to Reset Technologies.

i did not get reset technologies what you want to say

]]> By: Reset Technologies https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1158 Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:18:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1158 I am good with your article and i this without www is working now.
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]]> By: Shoeb Siddique https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1148 Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:47:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1148 This is my site: http://www.onlinepnrstatus.in/ , i have made many good quality links for my site but webmaster is not updating my links. It’s not updating links since months. I asked in Google forum about this and they said you need to verify non www version of your site. And don’t know how to do it.

]]> By: acesoftech https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1120 Sat, 07 Mar 2015 13:43:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1120 Dear Marvin,

Your explanation is excellent.

Oh! I was working on my website in Google webmaster for http://www.acesoftech.com and got confused which version should I keep. After reading your article, I came to know that its better to keep non-www version.

Thanks

]]> By: Lukáš https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-1006 Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:57:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-1006 I was wondering. If I set the prefered domain. Can I simply forget about the other one in webmasters` tools? Or would that be helpful to lets say upload sitemaps and so on even to the non-prefered domain in webmasters interface?

]]> By: dargahi https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-929 Mon, 29 Dec 2014 07:16:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-929 hello I thank enjoyed very nice . garaj kapısı

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]]> By: Raj https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-784 Fri, 07 Nov 2014 20:23:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-784 Good, Great tips. Thanks http://testingboss.com

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]]> By: mona https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-774 Sun, 02 Nov 2014 05:29:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-774 Hi
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]]> By: mona https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-768 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:07:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-768 very nice
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]]> By: Chris https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-691 Tue, 16 Sep 2014 05:17:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-691 Do we have to make the .htaccess 301 redirect change for WordPress websites as well? I read when you change your URL via WP General Settings from NON WWW to WWW or vice versa. Nothing else needs to be changed? Please advise, Thank you 🙂

]]> By: John https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-636 Tue, 15 Jul 2014 00:34:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-636 hi,

strange, I use the code for non-www to www correctly, but afterward when I go to my site http://mydomain.com it will go to http://www.mydomain.com/mydomain.com

What am I doing wrong here?

]]> By: James https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-633 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:42:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-633 I changed to a preferred domain. Someone or somehow my website got indexed with garbage non existent sub-domains in Google that was pointing to my main domain…. I think it causes duplicate content in Google. Not Sure. Do you know a way to de-index these bad subdomains? Thanks

]]> By: Man With a Van https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-612 Fri, 20 Jun 2014 16:37:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-612 Hi! Thanks for your post! But I have a question! I run a man and van company and recently started learning SEO. Now on “Majesticseo” I have report (please see picture inclosed) which shows 3 variation of my domain with a different number of external backlinks? The question is: Is there difference between http://www or non http:// version? Does google split my wibsite into 3 version of different websites? Do I need a code something like this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^olddomain.com$ [OR]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.olddomain.com$

RewriteRule (.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Thanks
Tony

]]> By: SeanO https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-601 Thu, 12 Jun 2014 07:23:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-601 This is something we have just done on
MiniMovers it made a huge difference in rankings.

]]> By: Permana Jayanta https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-539 Mon, 05 May 2014 02:39:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-539 In reply to Mukesh.

I have same question with @Mukesh. Because that would mean that we have www and non-www for each domain?

]]> By: MoogleStiltzkin https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-415 Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:01:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-415 In reply to Ashish Garg.

*slap you >->;

]]> By: Mukesh https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-314 Wed, 08 Jan 2014 18:41:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-314 Hello Sir, as you said in step 2, I verify non-www version of my site. Now my question is. do i keep www version in webmaster tool or simply delete that version?

]]> By: Ashish Garg https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-285 Sun, 01 Dec 2013 10:13:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-285 In reply to SEO Group.

m a fresher….how to use ftp ??

]]> By: SEO Group https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-284 Sat, 30 Nov 2013 14:52:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-284 In reply to Ashish Garg.

In your root folder. Sometimes it’s hidden. Use FTP, but you must have experience.

]]> By: Ashish Garg https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-283 Sat, 30 Nov 2013 07:20:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-283 where i can find my .htaccess file… ? My domain is http://www.ludhianaweddingvendors.com/

]]> By: AnnaK https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-278 Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:02:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-278 I reversed the usage of my primary domain with one of subdomains (301 redirect). Do I need to change preferred domain to my new primary domain in my webmaster? If the answer is “yes” how do I do it? Your response will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

]]> By: SEO Group https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-257 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:26:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-257 In reply to egallery.

You can’t access it then. Move to wordpress and use your own domain. Just update it in Webmaster tools. It should work fine. But htaccess would seal the deal.

]]> By: egallery https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-254 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 06:39:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-254 In reply to SEO Group.

But sir i am using Google blogger.

]]> By: SEO Group https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-253 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 06:09:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-253 In reply to egallery.

Via FTP. It may be hidden. Change you settings. Trying using filezilla

]]> By: egallery https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-252 Thu, 12 Sep 2013 05:35:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-252 where can i find htaccess file for my blog http://www.entertaiinmentgallery.blogspot.com ?

]]> By: SEO GROUP https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-224 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 18:15:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-224 In reply to Simon.

Probably not. Matt Cutts can clearly detect things like this and the change is not significant enough to cause a rank issue, such as a new domain name and 301 redirecting it.

You should be fine (Nothing is ever guaranteed)

]]> By: Simon https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-219 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 08:25:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-219 In reply to SEO GROUP.

I’ve had a few websites set to non www for some years and others set to www. I want to standardise them. Will changing them now affect rank?

]]> By: SEO GROUP https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-218 Fri, 23 Aug 2013 01:27:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-218 In reply to Sly.

Later date than from launch? Please elaborate on your question:)

]]> By: Sly https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-217 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:40:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-217 Will it harm my ranking if I change my preferred url from www to non www at a later date?

]]> By: Marvin Russell https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-216 Thu, 22 Aug 2013 22:36:32 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-216 In reply to Phil Smith.

I don’t think you have to. If it let’s you, do so. Also set your htaccess to be extra sure.

]]> By: Phil Smith https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-213 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 18:17:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-213 A (possibly stupid) question. I prefer the non www domain (.mysite.com) so I set this as preferred domain in webmaster tools. I was then asked to verify ownership of the www domian which I did. My question is do I then also set the preferred domain in the webmaster tools for the www site (www.mysite.com) to the non www domain (.mysite.com)?

]]> By: SEO GROUP https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-212 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:58:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-212 In reply to rashid.

htaccess (see above)

]]> By: SEO GROUP https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-211 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:57:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-211 In reply to joshua logan.

It won’t negatively impact it. Google understands what you are doing. Just pick one.

]]> By: rashid https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-210 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:52:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-210 In reply to Rashid.

in web master tools i have setup it but dont know how to set my preferd domain on my server ( web hosting) of my site ppscforum.com.pk

]]> By: Rashid https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-209 Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:50:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-209 i dont know how to set preferd domain for
http://www.ppscforum.com.pk

]]> By: joshua logan https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-161 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 17:18:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-161 In reply to SEO GROUP.

Although in Google Webmaster tools i see it already set as www. But because this is a blog hosted on wordpress platform, and the hosting company someone installed the script at the root. When i look at my SERPs, they are all without the www.

Does that matter?

]]> By: SEO GROUP https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-160 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:25:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-160 In reply to joshua logan.

Hi Joshua,

Matt Cutts does say that when link building, either type of link (to a www or non www) will be just as effective as long as you set your preferred domain using the instructions above.

So I would pick www or non www and set it. On the safe side i would also recommend setting it to which ever you have more links to. (just as a precaution)

Thanks!

]]> By: joshua logan https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-158 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 05:16:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-158 i have already asked few people that all my backlinks to my blog http://iphonage are like this, but in google
webmasters tool by default my preferred domain is set to http://www.iphonage.com.
Should i change it to non-wwww? How would this impact? as i have around
60 domains and ips linking to non-www version and only few ips and
domains linking to wwww version. Please guide

]]> By: joshua logan https://mysiteauditor.com/blog/how-to-set-your-preferred-domain-and-double-the-power-of-your-backlinks/#comment-157 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 05:07:00 +0000 https://mysiteauditor.com/blog//?p=122#comment-157 most of my links are non www. what should i set as my preferred domain?

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