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Yes, as of last night I have both verified. It still gives me the error message when I attempt to 'prefer' non-www version

I've done all of that, yet it still gives me the problem. I'll attempt to find a workaround. Thanks for taking the time out to answer my question(s)!

When I do this I get

"Part of the process of setting a preferred domain is to verify that you own http://mopupduty.com/. Please verify http://mopupduty.com/."

I've verified this domain, however whenever I go and reattempt to do the 'preferred domain' display url for mopupduty.com it comes back with the "part of the process..." quote from above. Will it just take time or is something amiss?

Hi. My baseball blog (mopupduty.com) shows up as www.mopupduty.com in Google Webmaster tools. This is an issue for me, as my Wordpress plug-in sitemap will only show up on http://mopupduty.com/sitemap.xml , not the www. version

Is there any way in changing the www. in webmaster tools without deleting my existing index. The website currently has sitelinks in search results, and I'm not too keen in giving them up via deletion.

Thanks

Found this over at Google Webmasters support. Hope it helps:

bing is https://www.bing.com/webmasters/

yahoo is https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/mysites

Otherwise update your .htaccess and they will follow along

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^themaralink.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.themaralink.com/$1 [L,R=301]

I'm not sure how to remove answered.

I came across this link to my site via google:

http://mopupduty.com/index.php/jose-bautista-gold-glove-candiate/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+JoseBautistaNewsOnDaylife+(ExcitingAds!+Jose+Bautista+News+on+Daylife)\

Is this auto generated by my wordpress blog? I assume it is just a regular link, letting me know the source is Day Life.

I also ran my article text through Copyscape and came up with 10 different matches

Yes we do.

We get numerous retweets from regular readers + team specific twitter feed aggregators.

I'd have to second #3. It's difficult to answer without knowing how much the link will cost you (time, $$, etc)

Another good idea. Thanks again

Thanks.

I was thinking about getting a wordpress plugin for the sitemap. It hasn't been an issue in the past but then again things are different now.

Meta trick is new, I'll give that a shot.

Sorry, I can't seem to edit. I should add that the syndication/image situation has been the same for the past two years.

Links structure is very very good.

For example, whenever the site updates a small syndication is updated on Yahoo! Sports (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/teams/tor/blogs)

I can see where you're going, so I'll say:

Our content is written 100% by our writers. Our content is syndicated everywhere (USA Today, MSG, Yahoo Sports!, etc). Could the samples sentences be an issue?

Image licensing is handled by my sports network (The Score is cable TV channel in Canada).

Everything is on the up and up on the site. Anyone else

I run a baseball site (http://www.mopupduty.com) that is in a very good link neighbourhood. ESPN, The Score, USA Today, MSG Network, The Toronto Star, Baseball Prospectucs, etc etc.

New content has not been getting indexed on Google ever since the last update. Site has no dup content, 100% original. I can't think of any spammy links, we get organic links day after day. In the past Google has indexed the site in minutes. It currently has expanded site links within Google search.

Bing & Yahoo index the site in minutes.

Are there any quick fixes I can make to increase my chance to get indexed by Google. Or just keep pumping out content and hope to see a change in the upcoming future?

Thanks, that's what I assumed (re: city targeting)

Here's a question I can't seem to find an answer to.

Does web hosting within a targeting city make a different in the engines?

For example, a site targeting the Denver area, with web hosting in Denver. Will this boast the ranking or is targeting limited to countries?

Thanks!