Page Analysis Difference Between Root and Subdomain
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I have a site where the canonical version is the subdomain www, with a permanent redirect to ensure this is so.
When I do a page analysis from the MozBar for the domain I see that www and *.domain are both displayed, with numbers from *.domain being shown by default in the mozbar.
Does MozBar show *.domain numbers by default, and do I correctly understand that the (higher) www numbers displayed in page analysis for www are valid and a result of my canonical strategy?
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Root domain is shown by default.
The effectiveness of your canonical strategy would be better figured out by testing through the search engines, as they implement such 'suggestions' a variety of ways. Here's an article that might help explain why this question is hard to answer:
http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/44947/does-mozrank-follow-canonical-and-301-correctly
I do think you're on the right track regarding the canonical strategy. Now I recommend to do some research as to how Google is responding to this strategy. When you search for your target terms, which version is showing in the results- www or root?