Some urgent help with canonical url's please!

Hello people

I have a html site that also has an internal wordpress blog. I just realized that there is a huge problem with canonical url's in my site. This is the problem.

When I do a site:www.domain.com search, I get 8 results. But, when I do site:domain.com, I get 290 results.

All my wordpress url's have been indexed by google in the http://domain.com format. The wordpress url's are also heavily backlinked.

If I change the wordpress url format to http://www.domain.com, will it solve the canonical url problem for my site? Also, if I make that change, will I lose all the link juice that my wordpress pages are getting from the backlinks. If I type in www.domain.com/wordpress page into the address bar, it still goes to the wordpress page although the wordpress page is indexed without the www. So, I am guessing that link juice will stay intact.

But, I want to be assured with your opinion. Thanks in advance if you can help out.

Thanks
Ramsweb

Have you told google to show your site as www? If you basically have everything as www then links/history from .domain.com should transfer over

Are you using canonical meta? Make sure you update the code to be www.pagename.com

wannabie said:

Have you told google to show your site as www? If you basically have everything as www then links/history from .domain.com should transfer over

Are you using canonical meta? Make sure you update the code to be www.pagename.com

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To be honest, I didn't understand your reply. Can I PM you or skype you for some assistance. I know you are always swamped on this forum. So, I thought I will ask before PM'ng you.

Lol im not sure i understand your question after reading it again, shoot me a pm and ill take look?

Might be a couple of hours for a reply though as popping out in the real world

Step 1: In Google Webmaster Tools, you can choose which version of your site is used (www or non-www). Change to non-www.

Step 2: Change your non-wordpress pages of the site to non-www.

Step 3: Get Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin and enable canonical url feature.

Step 4: 301 redirect your non-wordpress, www. pages to the non-www

Did I miss anything guys? OP's site is easily fixed I think.

FuryFit said:

Step 1: In Google Webmaster Tools, you can choose which version of your site is used (www or non-www). Change to non-www.

Step 2: Change your non-wordpress pages of the site to non-www.

Step 3: Get Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin and enable canonical url feature.

Step 4: 301 redirect your non-wordpress, www. pages to the non-www

Did I miss anything guys? OP's site is easily fixed I think.

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Worded it better than i did

Just check your code to make sure you dont have canonical meta pointing to .domain

wannabie said:

Lol im not sure i understand your question after reading it again, shoot me a pm and ill take look?

Might be a couple of hours for a reply though as popping out in the real world

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Thanks. I PM'ed you before I read the replies here. I will implement these changes. Thanks a lot.

FuryFit said:

Step 1: In Google Webmaster Tools, you can choose which version of your site is used (www or non-www). Change to non-www.

Step 2: Change your non-wordpress pages of the site to non-www.

Step 3: Get Yoast's Wordpress SEO plugin and enable canonical url feature.

Step 4: 301 redirect your non-wordpress, www. pages to the non-www

Did I miss anything guys? OP's site is easily fixed I think.

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I don't use Google Webmaster's tool. But I guess I will have to look into it now. Thanks for your step by step instructions.

FuryFit said:

Step 2: Change your non-wordpress pages of the site to non-www.

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I know this is a dumb question but where do I need to make that change?

Ramsweb said:

I know this is a dumb question but where do I need to make that change?

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Do you have htacess on your server?

wannabie said:

Do you have htacess on your server?

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Oh man. I have access to something called pleskpanel or cpanel at hostgator. I never go there though. I am mostly a content writer. But, I am going to try to Google everything and learn how to change it. Hope it goes well.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=ch....,cf.osb&fp=bb77f58c79dca3cc&biw=1366&bih=606 Ill leave you teach yourself but if you get stuck then shoot a pm

For anyone who might have been interested in the outcome of this problem, this is what I did to fix it.

I simply went to wordpress general settings and changed the permalink format to include www. After that, I pinged all the wordpress URL's. Google is already registering the changes. All is well. The current editions of Wordpress automatically 301 redirects canonical URL's. You don't even need any plugins.