Are my Domain URLs correctly set up?

[AshShep1]

Hi Im struggling with this probably easy concept, so I am sure one of you guys out there can answer it fairly easy!

My website is over50choices.co.uk and whilst using the free tools in Majestic it said that I had:

77 Referring Domains pointing to www.over50choices.co.uk and only 35 pointing to www.over50choices.co.uk/

And in Moz it said:

The URL you've entered redirects to another URL. We're showing results for www.over50choices.co.uk/ since it is likely to have more accurate link metrics. See data for over50choices.co.uk instead?

Does this mean that my domains arent set up correctly and are acting as separate domains - should one be pointing to the other?

Your help appreciated.

Ash

[Davenport-Tractor]

Ash.

Sounds to me that your not considering the default webpage as a source for links.

If in the server system you set up your default webpage as Home.htm, and the server will sometimes use a list of default webpage to try and look for as the default starting page. But installed as a web store you are using a website for instance written in ASP and that website software has a web.cfg file the web.cfg file will set a new default home page for instance Default.aspx

SO basically there are two different qualified pages that will start your web store but different names.

You could just type toe 2 different names in a browser to see what webpages are being used as the default, then 301 redirect the lowest result to the larger.

[Everett]

Here is how you have it set up now:

http://www.over50choices.co.uk/ (200 but browser removes trailing slash)
http://www.over50choices.co.uk (200 and should be your canonical URL.)
http://over50choices.co.uk/ (301 redirects to http://www.over50choices.co.uk/ )
http://over50choices.co.uk (301 redirects to http://www.over50choices.co.uk/ )

You should be fine, but if you wanted to change something I'd make the redirect from the non-www. version go to the version of www. without the trailing slash (i.e. http://www.over50choices.co.uk ) instead of http://www.over50choices.co.uk/.

You must have just entered over50choices.co.uk into the Moz tool without www., which is why it is letting you know that the tool decided to show for www. instead - though you have the option to force it to look at non-www if you want.

I wouldn't worry too much about it, other than choosing between www. with or without trailing slash.

[AshShep1]

Thanks Everett that's made it v clear.

Much appreciated

Ash

[AshShep1]

Meant to ask, so as it stands or even if i redirect as suggested, i am not losing any google juice having some back links pointing to to the trailing / or non trailing version?

Ash

[Everett]

That is a debatable question. In my opinion, I seriously doubt Google would have a problem figuring out that this is the same page. I don't think it would cause you to lose any pagerank.

However, if you just put a rel canonical tag on that page it should take care of it without even needing to worry about the redirect.