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At the moment it's possible to access the home page of my website via two different urls, with and without www.  and you've told me that this can  be resolved with Canonicalization and a 301 redirect.  Do I do this with my web hosting package or in my html pages?  If I can't do it with my web host (1&1) then is there an idiot's guide of how to do it yourself?

I've also got both the domain vamospaella.co.uk and vamospaella.com. Is it better to have one of these redirecting to the other for UK traffic (at the moment .co.uk redirects to .com)

Thanks

When I started a campaign for my message, I got the message:

"We have detected that the domain www.vamospaella.com and the domain vamospaella.com both respond to web requests and do not redirect. Having two "twin" domains that both resolve forces them to battle for SERP positions, making your SEO efforts less effective. We suggest redirecting one, then entering the other here."

I wasn't sure whether I had said it was a subdomain when in fact it was a domain (or the other way round), so I started another campaign for the same website using the other option and the message didn't come up.

However, I still don't understand what you meant by this and whether it's an issue.  When I search for my website in Google, it shows as vamospaella.com when other websites come up as www. and then their domain name.

If it is a problem, is it to do with my hosting package and how it's set up or is it to do with my local site on my computer? I did  ring my web host, 1&1, but they said they couldn't see a problem. Please can you let me know how I can resolve this as my ranking is still quite low in Google and I'm not sure why.  If it is because of "twin domains", then will Google see my content as duplicated and keep me low in their rankings?

I'm new to SEO and not a website novice, so please answer in lay terms!

Thanks

Melissa