Canonical Url Structure Vs. Google Search View

[vikasnwu]

I recently set up a new site and set the "preferred" domain in Google Webmasters to show URLs WITHOUT the WWW for google search purposes.

In the confirmation email from google, this confused me:

"This setting defines which host - www or not - should be considered the canonical host when indexing your site."

In the website, we have cononical URLS at the top of every page in the header, but still have the WWW in those.  Any issues with that?

[Linda-Vassily]

If you want the non-www URLs to be the ones that show up in search, yes, the canonical should be the non-www ones. You are sending mixed messages. Google will pick for you in this case, but why add confusion.

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