{"id":23833,"date":"2006-09-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/setting-the-preferred-domain\/"},"modified":"2006-09-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T00:00:00","slug":"setting-the-preferred-domain","status":"publish","type":"ar_kb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/google-bilgi-bankasi\/setting-the-preferred-domain\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting the preferred domain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gargardate\">Tuesday, September 12, 2006<\/p>\n<p>\n  Based on your input, we&#8217;ve recently made a few changes to the preferred domain feature of<br \/>\n  Webmaster Tools. And since you&#8217;ve had some questions about this feature, we&#8217;d like to answer<br \/>\n  them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/support\/webmasters\/bin\/answer.py?answer=44231&amp;topic=9025\" class=\"external-link\">preferred domain feature<\/a><br \/>\n  enables you to tell us if you&#8217;d like URLs from your site crawled and indexed using the www<br \/>\n  version of the domain (<code>https:\/\/www.example.com<\/code>) or the non-www version of the domain<br \/>\n  (<code>https:\/\/example.com<\/code>). When we initially launched this, we added the non-preferred<br \/>\n  version to your account when you specified a preference so that you could see any information<br \/>\n  associated with the non-preferred version. But many of you found that confusing, so we&#8217;ve made the<br \/>\n  following changes:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    When you set the preferred domain, we no longer will add the non-preferred version to your<br \/>\n    account.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    If you had previously added the non-preferred version to your account, you&#8217;ll still see it<br \/>\n    listed there, but you won&#8217;t be able to add a Sitemap for the non-preferred version.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    If you have already set the preferred domain and we had added the non-preferred version to your<br \/>\n    account, we&#8217;ll be removing that non-preferred version from your account over the next few days.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  Note that if you would like to see any information we have about the non-preferred version, you<br \/>\n  can always add it to your account.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Here are some questions we&#8217;ve had about this preferred domain feature, and our replies.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b>Once I&#8217;ve set my preferred domain, how long will it take before I see changes?<\/b>  The time<br \/>\n  frame depends on many factors (such as how often your site is crawled and how many pages are<br \/>\n  indexed with the non-preferred version). You should start to see changes in the few weeks after<br \/>\n  you set your preferred domain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b>Is the preferred domain feature a filter or a redirect? Does it simply cause the search results<br \/>\n    to display on the URLs that are in the version I prefer?<\/b> The preferred domain feature is not<br \/>\n  a filter. When you set a preference, we:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    Consider all links that point to the site (whether those links use the www version or the<br \/>\n    non-www version) to be pointing at the version you prefer. This helps us more accurately<br \/>\n    determine PageRank for your pages.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    Once we know that both versions of a URL point to the same page, we try to select the preferred<br \/>\n    version for future crawls.\n  <\/li>\n<li>\n    Index pages of your site using the version you prefer. If some pages of your site are indexed<br \/>\n    using the www version and other pages are indexed using the non-www version, then over time,<br \/>\n    you should see a shift to the preference you&#8217;ve set.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  <b>If I use a <code>301<\/code> redirect on my site to point the www and non-www versions to the<br \/>\n    same version, do I still need to use this feature?<\/b> You don&#8217;t have to use it, as we can<br \/>\n  follow the redirects. However, you still can benefit from using this feature in two ways: we can<br \/>\n  more easily consolidate links to your site and over time, we&#8217;ll direct our crawl to the preferred<br \/>\n  version of your pages.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <b>If I use this feature, should I still use a <code>301<\/code> redirect on my site?<\/b> You don&#8217;t<br \/>\n  need to use it for Googlebot, but you should still use the <code>301<\/code> redirect, if it&#8217;s<br \/>\n  available. This will help visitors and other search engines. Of course, make sure that you point<br \/>\n  to the same URL with the preferred domain feature and the <code>301<\/code> redirect.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  You can find more about this in our<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/webmasters\/\" class=\"external-link\">webmaster help center.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, September 12, 2006 Based on your input, we&#8217;ve recently made a few changes to the preferred domain feature of Webmaster Tools. And since you&#8217;ve had some questions about this feature, we&#8217;d like to answer them. 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