Canonical issue

[louandel15]

Hi,

Very new to seomoz but very impressed. First report has shown me that I have duplicate pages. Some seem to be duplicate titles and some were duplicates of pages i found on the server.

however the main problem is it seems to be picking up pages with www and without it which I have a vague idea is a canonical issue.

so it throws up pages like this:

http://web-writer-articles.co.uk

and http://www.web-writer-articles.co.uk

I want it just to pick up pages with www

Firstly should it be picking up both and if not how can I make amendments so that it is only picking up pages which include www ?

thank you for your help,

louandel15

[Naghirniac]

Yes, now it should work. If not, write to me and I can help you

[louandel15]

In my htaccess file at the moment I have:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.php

Do i just add what you have suggested so it looks like this:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.cgi index.php

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^web-writer-articles.co.uk RewriteRule (.*) http://www.web-writer-articles.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

thanks

louandel15

[Naghirniac]

Than you will need to make a 301 redirection to solve the problem. You will need to edit your  .htaccess file. You will find it at you public_html fold. If it doesnt exist, create one.

Inside this file you in write the follow:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^web-writer-articles.co.uk RewriteRule (.*) http://www.web-writer-articles.co.uk/$1 [R=301,L]

Problem solved and google will not more complain.