Why is there duplicates of my domain

[gorillakid]

When viewing crawl diagnostics in SEOmoz I can see both "www.website.com" and a truncated version "website.com" is this normal and why is it showing (I do not have duplicates of my site on the server)?

E.g.:

http://www.klinehimalaya.com/
http://klinehimalaya.com/

[BlueprintMarketing]

You need to do a 301 redirect

[matbennett]

I tried to look at this for you, but you have some issues on your site that are stopping me viewing it completely.

Both klinehimalaya.com and www.klinehimalaya.com create an infinite loop that prevents the page loading.  klinehimalaya.com is correctly 301ing to www.klinehimalaya.com

However www.klinehimalaya.com is redirecting to itself.

You need to fix that URGENTLY. Start by looking at your htaccess file.

[gorillakid]

Think I just fixed the redirect, but I still have an issue in SEOmoz where it is still pulling up both references to:

http://www.klinehimalaya.com/index.php
klinehimalaya.com/index.php

Apparently this will effect my SEO efforts, hot to fix!!!

Thanks all!

[ross1971]

You are linking to your home page via your logo in the header.

However you are linking to this address http://www.klinehimalaya.com/index.php try linking to this address http://www.klinehimalaya.com/

This will remove your duplicate content issue.

[matbennett]

You have fixed the redirect loop, but the initial problem still exists.  With the urgent issue now fixed (I can see the site now!) let's look at the problem:

You don't actually have a live problem at the moment, so any fix here will not improve your results. However you have a potential problem - one that could occur and cause you problems later. It's not hard to fix, so it is good to get it done.

Your server (like many) is set up to serve the same files to both klinehimalaya.com and www.klinehimalaya.com, which are technically different addresses.  If google followed a link to klinehimalaya.com and a link to www.klinehimalaya.com if would find the content at two seperate places and could index both and consider them to be duplicate.  Yes... all those PHDs and Google is still that stupid.

What you need to do (and I think you were trying to do this) is to pick one version of that address as the one that you are going to use. You can then redirect traffic from the other version to the chosen version.

In fact anythinghere.klinehimalaya.com is also serving up the same site, so you should fix the lot in one go.

If you are running apache (most sites are)  then you can do this with an .htaccess redirect .  There is a good example of how to do this at the top of this page: http://dense13.com/blog/2008/02/27/redirecting-non-www-to-www-with-htaccess/

In short it checks to see whether the address being loaded starts with www. .  If it doesn't then it loads that version via a 301 redirect.

The issue Ross has pointed out is separate and not fixed by this. You should do both.

I hope that helps.

[SEM-Freak]

Hi,

If I was you I would go into Google Webmaster tools and verify both versions of the site, then go to Configuration >> Setting >> Preferred domain and tell Google your preference.

You will need to do this with both verified versions of the domain. You can then delete the listing for the one you do not want

You will only need one Google Verification code.

That will sort the issue with Google

Geoff

[BlueprintMarketing]

I have checked out your website we you may not have implemented the 301 redirect correctly. In addition you should use Google Webmaster tools along with

rel="canonical"

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-advanced-relcanonical-http-headers

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139394

Add a rel="canonical" link to the  section of the non-canonical version of each HTML page.

To specify a canonical link to the page http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish, create a  element as follows:

Copy this link into the  section of all non-canonical versions of the page, such as http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish&sort=price.

If you publish content on both http://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish and https://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish, you can specify the canonical version of the page. Create the element:

Add this link to the  section of https://www.example.com/product.php?item=swedish-fish.

[Casey_Meraz]

You can set the preferred domain just like Geoff mentioned. But basically since you have a www version and a non www version it can be seen as duplicate content. Although the site is only one website and changes will appear on each the URL structure changes for depending on if you use the www or non www and therefore it looks like duplicate content.

[gorillakid]

Hey Mat,

Another question. If I have changed a page address from:

http://www.klinehimalaya.com/packages.html to
http://www.klinehimalaya.com/packages.php

will I also need to redirect the pages I have changed from .html to .php or is this not needed because I have not changed the file name prior to the prefix?

Thanks.

Paul.

[gorillakid]

Ok, I have implemented the Google Webmaster redirect. and now I have tried the edit to the .htaccess file trying both options below with no success.

Option 1:
AddHandler php-stable .php
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

Option 2:
AddHandler php-stable .php
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.klinehimalaya.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Neither seem to be working when viewed here:
http://anythinghere.klinehimalaya.com/

Please help.

Thanks

[gorillakid]

Hi All,

I have just altered my Google Webmaster tools in the Config (as per Geoff's advice above) and that appears to be fine for now. However, I have also updated my ".htaccess" file dong a 301 redirect, details below:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www. [NC]
RewriteRule ^ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301]

I also have recently changed my pages from .html to .php do I redirect by using this code as I want all old links to now refer to the .php file:

RewriteRule (.*).html$ /$1.php [R=301,L]

Lastly, Thomas on the canonical side of things, is it necessary for me to implement this in the Head?

How can I see if the work completed is correct or check that it works?

Paul.