Duplicate Content http://www.website.com and http://website.com

[thirdseo]

I'm getting duplicate content warnings for my site because the same pages are getting crawled twice? Once with http://www.website.com and once with http://website.com. I'm assuming this is a .htaccess problem so I'll post what mine looks like.

I think installing WordPress in the root domain changed some of the settings I had before. My main site is primarily in HTML with a blog at

http://www.website.com/blog/post-name

BEGIN WordPress

<ifmodule mod_rewrite.c="">RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]</ifmodule>

END WordPress

[KeriMorgret]

Hi Jonathan,

Did this work for you, or would you still like some help:?

[Yanbo]

yup

[thirdseo]

I'm assuming replace "mydomain" with my actual domain name?

[James77]

You can set a preference for whether you want you domain www or not in google webmaster tools.

I would personally not worry to much about you site showing the same content on www and root and not having a full redirect in place - SE's are smart enough to know this is a common problem (especially amongst genuine Mom & Pop sites who are not that internet savvy but have genuine sites) that they (IMO) are very unlikely to apply any penalty.

[Yanbo]

Hi

Addin these few lines between IfModule tags should solve the problem

 <code>#redirect all requests made to http:// to http://www.
         RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com$ [NC]
         RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]</code>

Kind regards

Bojan