How do I get this program to see url with www. and with out www the same
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The program is showing pages with www. as a differant page from a page with out the www. first, this is showing up as duplicate pages when they are the same page, how do I filter this?
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Thank you for such a quick responce. you answered more then you know with this answer, I also had problems with URLs that I capitalized in the past and did not know how to fix it. Now I know
Thank you
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You don't want to filter it! Instead you want to work out why it's doing that, and then fix it. This is going to be done by adding a rel="canonical" link for starters, and then also 301 redirecting the non-WWW to the WWW or vice versa.
You do NOT want Google to see duplicate content, you want all roads to lead to the one.
Therefore look into htaccess 301 redirection (for Apache) or similar.
SEOMoz has a bunch of info about duplication and redirection:
The latter is extremely extremely important for SEO. Duplicate content is bad, and at the moment all of your content has the potential for duplication so you want to ensure that there's only one version of everything.
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