SEOmoz vs Google Webmaster Tools on incoming links

[bvalentine]

I'm working on basic SEO for http://queueassoc.com.

Google has indexed the non-www verions of the pages and these are what the SERPS return

SEOmoz toolbar shows that all of the incoming links juice goes to the www. versions of the pages, none to the non-www version.

Yesterday I set up GWMT for the site, submitted a sitemap with the www version of the pages and set the default address to the www version.

I had to verify both versions of the site in order to do this and in looking at the non-www version I saw that Google had all the incoming links there and none in the www.version, the opposite of what SEOmoz shows.

Is this just because Google only has the non-www versions in its index? Will they show the links to the www version once they get them in the index?

I'm worried about losing Google Page Rank value or SEOmoz DA by making this switch.

[kdaly100]

Did you set up t he links pointing to the www version in the first place?  Its not clear from y our question and this might be ther reason.    You should ultimately redirect to one or the other and when this is done build linksot the relevant one and you needn't worry anymore then

[bvalentine]

The links were set up long ago. I just started the SEO project a few weeks ago. According to SEOmoz Pro toolbar they all point to the www version.

Thanks for your reply.

[DanSpeicher]

Google PageRank isn't something I'd worry about in this context. Rand covered what PageRank should and shouldn't be used for in his latest Whiteboard Friday: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/what-is-googles-pagerank-good-for-whiteboard-friday.

I prefer a 301 redirect over GWT preferences. I'd 301 redirect the non-www version to the www version (assuming that the www version has the popularity).

Code and directions are provided on the Web Developer's Cheat Sheet: http://static.seomoz.org/user_files/SEO_Web_Developer_Cheat_Sheet.pdf

[bvalentine]

Thanks for that link, I wasn't aware of it.

Yes, I'm trying to get the redirect you mention taken care of. If only the client could tell me who maintains their website!