How would I know if Google is showing me as two separate sites?
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I work for a company that is (for example) www.neat-stuff.com, most people just type in www.neatstuff.com. I think that we are being counted as a site twice. Any suggestions as to how to know for sure?
If you want to know why I am asking this here is the link http://www.seomoz.org/q/redirect-help
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It's serious enough. I mean, why only fix 3 out of the 4 leaks in your boat? If you're gonna fix 'em, fix 'em all
And it's potentially very serious if the unfixed version is one of the two on the primary domain.
It's a simple extra addition to the IIS redirects.
Do note though! All the 301 redirects should point DIRECTLY to the final primary url. e.g. you don' t want a redirect that goes neatstuff.com -> www.neatstuff.com -> www.neat-stuff.com.
The header checker tool will warn you about this by showing two 301-redirects before finally listing the 200 response.
Paul
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Makes perfect sense. Everything was ok except one that is without the www. is showing a 200 instead of a 301. How serious is that?
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The quickest way to check this, Niners52, is to use a server header checking tool like the one at SEO Book
http://tools.seobook.com/server-header-checker/Run a test on each domain name, including the variations with and without the www. Four tests in all. Each one of those that returns a server 200 header response, is being seen as a separate site by the search engines.
If the system has been set up correctly, instead you will see one of those four variations return a 200 response, and the other three will return 301 redirect responses pointing to the one version you wish to be the primary.
Make sense?
Paul
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