Www to nonwww - domain authority drop build it back up plan
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hi there,
I recently changed my website over from a www. (or nothing selected so i assume www.). to a non-www.
eg webmasters and my website are all on the same page. I contacted as many websites as i could that have my link in there website to update it to the http://websitedotcom
the cblocks dropped by 50% (from 12 to 6).
domain authority dropped from 21 to 19.is there a way to see which c-blocks I lost? finnmoto.com.au
thanks
matt
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Hi George,
wow, I never thought id see a break down of info so detailed for the website. It makes things alot easier. Screamingfrog is amazing.
confirmed it showing www.finnmoto.com.au as status code 301. most pages are 200 (ok)
can clearly see I need to work on metadescription, H1 and H2, eventually clean up metakeywords.ill need to learn more about directives; canonical, canonicalised, etc... everything else looks pretty good I guess.
Your not wrong about the dust settling; submited 115 urls 26th oct.
google has only index 46 urls 30th oct. (in webmasters the www. is showing 101 indexed of 115).should I be turning off the www. in google webmasters now, or just leave it and wait.
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Hi Finnmoto,
You're in luck - it does use a 301 for that homepage redirect. The results of this test were brought to you by the mighty Fiddler (http://www.telerik.com/fiddler).
I've migrated pages like this before and it can take a bit of time for the dust to settle. Remember you've migrated an entire website to a new subdomain in one go and that takes time for Google and other services to process (depending on how authoritative your site is).
It's worth crawling your entire site's old URL structure with ScreamingFrog to check the redirects were implemented correctly.
Regards,
George
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thank you for the response Samuelscott
I use bigcommerce and selected - "Redirect WWW to no WWW" in the settings SEO section.
Testing www.finnmoto.com.au it goes to finnmoto.com.au I would assume its a 301 redirect. Im not sure how to see if its a 301 or 302
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Did you 301 (permanent) redirect every single page from the www domain to the non-www domain? If not, this is something that you should do immediately. (Note: Be sure that you do not use 302 (temporary) redirects!)
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