Google Webmaster Tools, about multiple entries for your website
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Hi I have a doubt about Google Webmaster Tools or Central as it is call today. I remember that google recommended to have one profile of your website for each domain structure. Let me try to be more clear one profile for http://www.yoursite.com, an other for http://yoursite.com, an other for https://www.yoursite.com, etc. Then in each of them we uploaded our sitemaps and cross our fingers.
Now from my experience always the complete url have better index status from the sitemap.
Now my question is, today as Google requested all our websites run under https, so conserving the other profiles is affecting how google index our pages? shall we have to delete the old profiles or is better to maintain them?
Thanks.
Pablo
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Thanks Martijn, so keeping all the different domain option and in all of them the same sitemap will not affect in a negative way your google performance.
Good, thanks guys.
Pablo
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It is definitely better to maintain all of them. In the end Google Search Console is just a tool that will help you to configure some things but that won't always be the clearest sign to Google that all of that is completely right.
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To the best of my knowledge you should have one for each instance.
http://yoursite.com
http://www.yoursite.com
https://yoursite.com
https://www.yoursite.comThe one you find indexed and in the search results is almost always the preferred domain you have chosen.
From Google below ---- Link to google support page
Search Console data and reporting work best on a site level. For example, if your site http://www.example.com has separate sections for different countries, we recommend adding each of those subsites or subfolders as a separate site. For example, if you have a travel site with specific subfolders covering Ireland, France, and Spain, you could add the following sites to your Search Console account:
- http://www.example.com
- http://www.example.com/france
- http://www.example.com/ireland
- http://www.example.com/spain
**Similarly, if your site has http:// and https:// versions, you should add each as a separate **__site.
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