Www/nonwww .co.uk/.com

[craven22]

When I started SEO - I didn't really know what I was doing (still don't!) Just wondering if anyone can help me with this small problem.

I now understand that I basically have 4 URLs

www.ablemagazine.com (Page Authority: 38/100)

www.ablemagazine.co.uk (Page Authority: 47/100)

ablemagazine.com (Page Authority: 3/100)

ablemagazine.co.uk (Page Authority: 51/100)

What should be configuration be to ensure I'm not loosing masses amounts of linkjuice? At the moment I have ablemagazine.co.uk set as my default domain in webmaster tools. www.ablemagazine.com www.ablemagazine.co.uk and ablemagazine.com all 301 redirect here (I think)

[krissy-cca]

Hey,

The only 301 you have set up is from www.ablemagazine.co.uk to ablemagazine.co.uk

The other URLs are returning a 200 status which means that you have pretty much 3 versions of your homepage.

In a perfect world I would have made www.ablemagazine.co.uk your actual domain - then 301 all other URLs including the non-www version of the page to this address. When people link to your site they are more likely to use the full address not the non-www version. (Do this if you can easily update all URLs across the site.)

DD

[craven22]

If I do this, will that negatively affect my SERPs (temporarily)

How long before all the page authority is passed on if I do this (roughly)

Thanks

[krissy-cca]

#1 - You'll probably incur a small hit but the authority is so closely matched between pages I don't see it as a massive problem (are the .com pages ranking btw?)

#2 - Adding a 301 to a page will pass most of the authority/link juice but not all. The 'time taken' can depend on the next time the page is crawled and indexed and/or how often the page is crawled. Hard to give a definite I'm afraid!

On a side note - Other members will say if you're ranking then why change what you've currently got? That's fine - but in my opinion you should 'future-proof' as much as you can and having the www. version is jut best practice.

DD

[craven22]

Just checked with the Rank Tracker and the .com domains don't appear to be ranking for any of my keywords (including domain name). Will I notice a bump in SERPs/traffic once I 301 the domain .com -> .co.uk or has google already figured that out behind the scenes?