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If you look at the redirect code the webhost provided in their instructions, I notiched there is not a [NC] at the end of the Rewrite Cond line.   I'm not sure if that [NC] is necessary or not.

Other than that and the possible time-lag you speak of, I'm at a loss.

Well, this isn't making any sense.

I made the following change to my .htaccess file - followed the instructions given my my web host:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mysite.com

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Then I ran another seoMoz root crawl a couple hours later and it still said I had the same errors on my home page (duplicate home page content and titles).

I just checked my .htaccess file again and it did save those 301 redirect changes.  So why am I still getting duplicate page errors?  thx.

Thanks for the explanation.  Could you answer a couple questions?

1 - If all internal site links go to www.mysite.com (none link to http://mysite.com), how does a duplicate page even happen?  I don't understand how this happened to begin with if I don't have any such internal link to http://mysite.com.

2 - Can you recommend a service who can fix the htaccess page for me to create the 301 redirect?  I'm not sure I want the hosting service doing it and making a mistake.

Thanks!

Thanks - I initially thought that was it.

But if you see my 3rd campaign of the crawl, it runs it for the root domain and it shows no duplicates.

My point is the inconsistency in the SeoMoz crawler reports.

I got two SeoMoz crawl reports today - one was the regularly scheduled one which said I have duplicate home pages (as noted) and the crawl I started a couple hours ago said there are no errors.

So...how do you tell which one is right?  Both cannot be since there were no changes to my website pages between the crawls.

thx

SeoMoz crawler indicated a few times that my site has a duplicate home page error (http://mysite.com and www.mysite.com)

I eliminated the the couple remaining internal links that pointed to http://mysite on a couple pages (all other internal links point to http://www.mysite.com)

I ran the crawl again and it said no errors this time.  I naturally thought the duplicate page error problem was fixed.

However this morning I got the regularly scheduled crawl report from SeoMoz that said again I have those duplicate error pages. No changes were made to any of my site's pages between the crawls.

That makes me wonder if the crawler is providing false positives at times or was wrong when it said on the crawl a couple days ago that I don't have any errors (no duplicate page error).

Now, I don't know what to think.

Thanks for your post.

Google is indexing all my www pages (including www.mysite.com), but (I guess this is good news?) no documents show up for the:

site:mysite.com -url:www

in Google.

How big of an issue is this for search engines?  I'm indexed in Bing, Google, Yahoo.

I'm curious as to how big (or small) an impact this really has on a website.

thx.

Thanks but I'm more confused now than ever and I don't know how to change a .htaccess file, so I don't want to turn this into a DYI project and screw things up even more.   I get the gist of what the problem is.

All my internal pages link back to www.mysite.com and to www.mysite.com/pages.htm throughout the site.

However, I noticed that  for a img src for a facebook page (external link in my site), I am mistakenly linking that to http://mysite.com/facebook (no www).  So I'll at least fix that to include www so there's consistency.  Not sure if that's related to the problem - there are not other pages I've seen that link to http://mysite.com instead of www.mysite.com.

I've learned a lot here, but this is one technical thing I don't want to do myself and make things worse.

Search engine analysis is indicating that my site has twin home pages (www.mysite.com and http://mysite.com).

The error message I'm getting is:  "your website resides at both www.mysite.com and mysite.com.

My uploaded index page is a .htm page (not .html).  I don't know if that matters.

Can someone explain how this happened and what I can do to fix it?

Thanks!

Is there a risk that Google will de-index your site or lower your ranking if you have too many backlinks from free classifed sites?  I would just use 1 free ad per classified website.  Thanks.