WWW.mydomain.com and .mydomain.com

[KevnJr]

Moz analytics reports numerous duplicate page content because it is reading both the WWW.mydomain.com and .mydomain.com

How do I adjust our Moz accounts to only analyze our mydomain.com?

[LoganRay]

Hi,

Moz is actually doing part of what it was designed to do, notify you of duplicate content issues, which has pretty serious ramifications. One version should always redirect to the other version. It doesn't matter whether you choose www or non-www, both versions of a webpage should not render.

By having both www and non-www versions accessible, you're having search engines crawl and index twice as many pages as necessary. You're certainly hindering the effectiveness of your SEO efforts but having this duplicate content issue.

I don't know what CMS you're using, so I can't recommend how to setup those redirects, but a simple "www redirects with CMS XYZ" should get you there.

[KevnJr]

I have the redirects in place and Google recognizes them, but the weekly Moz reports show hundreds of duplicate pages.

How do I eliminate that from our weekly report?

[LoganRay]

That's strange, I don't know of anyway to manually remove that from the report. You could setup a new campaign with just the www version, but that's not optimal because then you'd lose your historical data.

Is this for the Heritage Printing website?

[KevnJr]

Yes, we have 2 heritageprinting.com and heritageprintingcharlotte.com

[LoganRay]

Nice, a fellow tarheel!

On both of those sites, I'm able to view both www and non-www versions. I do think configuration of the sites isn't setup properly. Also, in running a site:heritageprinting.com search in Google yields both www and non-www versions of pages.

[KevnJr]

This is in the head tag of our index page for the Charlotte site:

[LoganRay]

It's good to have those canonicals, but they don't quite function the same way as the non-www redirect. Check out this article, you should have something in your htaccess file that actually redirects those, so non-www always redirects (or vice versa if you choose).

To use Moz as an example of how this should function, watch the URL bar when you click this link: http://www.moz.com/.

[KevnJr]

Thx, I'll change that over

[KevnJr]

Works GREAT!

BTW: this is the marketing manager Kevin, not Joe (owner). I'm native TARHEEL!

[LoganRay]

Awesome, you should see those dupe errors go away on your next crawl report!

It looks like you chose the non-www route, in that case, you'll want to update those canonical tags to point to the same.