www and non www duplicate content
Hello! and thank you for your time!!
I have the www and non-www of my site google indexed. From what I understand this is duplicate content and therefore not good. Is this a major problem seo wise? Remedy?? I'm pretty sure all www URLs are redirected to non-www. NON WWW is my preference but at the same time not sure it matters
Side note: I'm seeing about 550 www redirects (out of 898) in my google console - Indexing/Pages/Page indexing>Page with redirect (under Why pages aren’t indexed/reason).
Side note: Not sure if this is relevant or perhaps it's an seo "issue" in itself, but..) but as I was recreating the site (from joomla to wp) I created about 1100 redirects from URLs containg category(s), sub-categories, tags, and articles to a URL just containg the post. I can provide examples.
Again, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME, SUGGESTIONS, THOUGHTS, INSTRUCTIONS, AND YOUR WISDOM!, ETC.
If you mention website URL with www in WordPress settings section, then non-www URLs get redirected to it. Alternatively, you can use your hosting control panel to redirect non-www URLs to www URLs.
Redirecting URLs can't be crawled or indexed by search engines. Too many redirections should be avoided as it can lag the server speed.
Pretty sure? Double check. You can use curl in your command line or Developer Tools in your browser to check and see if it's redirected (properly).
If it is, it doesn't matter what is your preference and how people link it. Google knows how to treat the links with redirects.
Don't forget to use 301 redirect for this.