Disavow both www. and non www. version of site?
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I just submitted my disavow file to Google after several months of work. A few months ago a saw a partial match unnatural link penalty in the www. version of my site's Search Console account. The penalty has since expired.
Should I also upload the file to the non www. side of the Search Console account? No penalty ever appeared there.
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Hi there.
Quote from GMT:
Note: When looking at the links to your site in Search Console, you may want to verify both the www and the non-www version of your domain in your Search Console account. To Google, these are entirely different sites. Take a look at the data for both sites. More information
I'd do it for both versions, just to be safe, even if you have proper redirects from one to another. If you don't have proper redirects - gotta do it right meow!
Hope this helps.
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