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Thanks for taking the time to reply to my question - I'm going to implement 301 redirects and put this issue to bed!

Thanks for the quick response Jesse, its great to receive your thoughts and that makes me feel much better about how to tackle the situation!

Cheers,
Simon.

Hi,

I've noticed I can access/view a client's site's home page using the following URL variations -

http://example.com/
http://example/index.html
http://www.example.com/
http://www.example.com/index.html

There's been no preference set in Google WMT but Google has indexed and features this URL - http://example.com/

However, just to complicate matters, the vast majority of external links point to the 'www' version.

Obviously i would like to tidy this up and have asked the client's web development company if they can place 301 redirects on the domains we no longer want to work - I received this reply but I'm not sure whether this does take care of the duplicate issue -

Understand what you're saying, but this shouldn't be an issue regarding SEO. Essentially all the domains listed are linking to the same index.html page hosted at 1 location

My question is, do i need to place 301 redirects on the domains we don't want to work and do i stick with the 'non www' version Google has indexed and try to change the external links so they point to the 'non www' version or go with the 'www' version and set this as the preferred domain in Google WMT?

My technical knowledge in this area is limited so any help would be most appreciated.

Regards,
Simon.

Does anyone have any knowledge/thoughts on how leading newswire sites have been effected by Google's latest updates, i.e. Panda? To date this has been a method (alongside others) I have sucessfully used to build links, but the results of late have not been as good for some clients and I'm beginning to question how effective this is - so I would be very interested to hear anyone else's experiences in this area?