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rossendryv
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Posted: 09/12/2005 09:55 am
When my site comes up in Yahoo, it does not have the www. What could be the reason for this
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bhartzer
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Posted: 09/12/2005 10:16 am
Yahoo! has probably found some links somewhere to your site without the www. So, they decided, for whatever reason, to index domain.com instead of www.domain.com.
This can happen when you don't have a 301 Permanent Redirect set up to redirect from domain.com to www.domain.com.
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rossendryv
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Posted: 09/12/2005 10:40 am
Thank you but this cannot be the case as 99% of links coming in are with www. I made sure they all have www. Now the directory listing for site does not show up either.
This is also the case for MSN no www showing and it does not give "show more results....
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bhartzer
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Posted: 09/12/2005 10:54 am
It really only takes one link for them to start crawling your site without the www.
Have you checked to see if your site is using absolute or relative internal linking? If it's using relative linking (i.e., links go to page.html rather than www.domain.com/page.html) then it's likely that the spider found a link and was able to continue to crawl the site without the www. It happened to one of the sites I work on--I then changed to absolute linking internally and it took a week or two before it was all fixed.
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rossendryv
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Posted: 09/12/2005 12:50 pm
Could it be the link back to the site from the shopping cart, they went back to the site with no www
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bhartzer
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Posted: 09/12/2005 01:09 pm
Without knowing the specific URL it's hard to tell you specifically. However, that could be it--I personally don't like to have any links on a site that don't refer specifically to the www version of the site.
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g1smd
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Posted: 09/12/2005 04:06 pm
Whatever. It has happened. Now you need to fix it.
You need to set up a 301 redirect from non-www to www, and this will usually fix things in a month or two.
There are very many previous threads discussing this subject and the available solutions: look for any that discuss "www and non-www", "multiple domains", "redirects", and "duplicate content".
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