Remove www. in google webmaster

[mkoster]

Hi. My baseball blog (mopupduty.com) shows up as www.mopupduty.com in Google Webmaster tools. This is an issue for me, as my Wordpress plug-in sitemap will only show up on http://mopupduty.com/sitemap.xml , not the www. version

Is there any way in changing the www. in webmaster tools without deleting my existing index. The website currently has sitelinks in search results, and I'm not too keen in giving them up via deletion.

Thanks

[RyanKent]

Easy fix.

Log into Google WMT. From your dashboard choose > Site Configuration > Settings > Preferred Domain. Check the Display URLs as mopupduty.com and you will be all set.

[mkoster]

When I do this I get

"Part of the process of setting a preferred domain is to verify that you own http://mopupduty.com/. Please verify http://mopupduty.com/."

I've verified this domain, however whenever I go and reattempt to do the 'preferred domain' display url for mopupduty.com it comes back with the "part of the process..." quote from above. Will it just take time or is something amiss?

[RyanKent]

The verification process should be instant if you did it correctly.

You will download a file from Google, upload it to your web server, confirm you see the file, then click Verify. At that point your site is verified and you can manage it.

[mkoster]

I've done all of that, yet it still gives me the problem. I'll attempt to find a workaround. Thanks for taking the time out to answer my question(s)!

[David_ODonnell]

Have you verified both www and non www ?

[mkoster]

Yes, as of last night I have both verified. It still gives me the error message when I attempt to 'prefer' non-www version

[RyanKent]

How many websites do you have with the same Google WMT account? Is it possible there is any confusion?

Can you copy/paste the exact error message?