www URLs randomly crawled when site set to non www

  • Resolved novellusproperties

    (@novellusproperties)


    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hey community,

    My website has always used non www format for its URLs, however, a recent SEMrush site audit has ran and detected that 18 (interestingly not all) URLs www format have been crawled.

    I optimised the features within free Yoast SEO last week, and also migrated my site hosting from Greengeeks to Hostinger – so I’m not sure if either of these variables are the cause of this.

    For example: https://novellusproperties.co.uk has always been crawled/indexed, but https://www.novellusproperties.co.uk has also just been crawled according to SEMrush (though not indexed, and to note the crawl doesn’t show in Google Search Console yet either).

    Is this anything to worry about in terms of search engines thinking it’s duplicate content (that’s what SEMrush suggests), and do I need to do anything?

    I found this Yoast article https://yoast.com/how-to-remove-www-from-your-url/, however when I made the change to my htaccess file it broke the site as said there were too many redirects, so undid the changes.

    Thanks,

    Daniel Mullane

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hello Daniel,

    Thanks for reaching out. There should be a redirect from the non-WWW version to WWW, but that’s not happening. This means your website is loading from two locations, confirming what’s in the Semrush audit. Since you mentioned switching web hosting providers recently, please ask your new provider to implement the redirect for you on the server.

    You can re-run your audit when a redirect is in place. Also ensure that you only add the non-WWW version as a property in Google Search Console.

    Thread Starter novellusproperties

    (@novellusproperties)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Hi @maybellyne thanks for your reply! Is there a way of confirming whether an issue exists, as Google Search Console still hasn’t picked up the WWW URLs, and I don’t have SEMrush pro to re-run the site audit manually, I’m wondering if it just picked it up due to crooks of migrating the website hosting provider?

    In both WordPress admin and GSC, non-WWW has always been selected so I can’t figure out where it would have come from!

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    1 month, 3 weeks ago

    It is an issue if there is no redirect from the non-WWW version to the WWW version, and Google shouldn’t pick up the WWW version.

    Ensure that you only add the non-WWW version as a property in Google Search Console and monitor the console for notifications.

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