Rel-canonical
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Hi,
I am a bit confused. A potential clients website has three versions:
http://
In each version they have used the rel=canonical back to each base version. So
http://"
I would have expected duplicate content but I see only one version of the content when I check using "....." in Google. Using the site: tool I see that all three versions are indexed.
When moving through the navigation on them, they all redirect to the one home page - the www version.
Any idea what is going on and what should be recommended?Redirecting all versions to the www. version? Is it a problem?
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Thank you for your responses.
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Make sure you have GWT set to the www version.
Make the www version the canonical (and 301 redirect) for the http:// version
Allow the http://dev version to canonical to itself. I also suggest no-indexing your development environment so Google doesn't index it, competitors won't as easily see it, and your customers do not stumble upon it.
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If content is the same through all of these versions, then I assume it would be good to have http://www." in all of the versions. Of course if redirect is an option, then that would be better.
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