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A problem I see on many web sites is that they don’t have a proper re-direct in place for the non-www version of their web site.

In other words, you can access the site as either:

http://www.thesite.com or

http://thesite.com

You might think this is no big deal, however it could be hurting your search engine ranking, as Google may be indexing your site under both variations – so I highly recommend that you check it and get it fixed ASAP.

How do you check for this issue?

Simple – type the full address of your site in the browser URL area, e.g.

http://www.yoursite.com

Then – type the address without the “www.”, e.g.

http://yoursite.com

Check the browser URL – did it stay “http://yoursite.com” (bad) or did it change to “http://www.yoursite.com” (good!)

If it changed, then you already have the redirect in place – nothing for you to worry about.

If not, then you need to fix your site to redirect from the non-www version to the www version. (You can actually redirect the other way if you prefer, however my recommendation at present is to favor www – that still seems to be what most folks expect).

My instructions here are for Apache and involve editing the .htaccess file which is typically found at the top-level directory of your web site.

The sample code snippet I use in the video is:

# Important - replace <your-domain> with your actual domain e.g. myDomain.com
# Do NOT include the "www" in your domain - the code below takes care of it

### Fix non-www to www (canonicalization) redirect ###
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^<your-domain> [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.<your-domain>/$1 [R=301,L]
### End fix for non-www to www canonicalization redirect ###
</IfModule>


Here’s a brief video demonstrating the canonicalization issue on a sample website and showing step-by-step how you can apply the fix

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