Monday, October 20, 2008<\/p>\n
\n Today we’re going back to basics. We’ll be answering the question: What is a website? …Okay,
\n not exactly. But we will be looking into what a “website” means in the context of Webmaster Tools,
\n what kind of sites you can add to your Webmaster Tools account, and what data you can get from
\n different types of sites.\n<\/p>\n
\n Why should you care? Well, the following are all questions that we’ve gotten from webmasters
\n recently:\n<\/p>\n
\n In each of these cases, the answer was the same: the data was there, but the webmaster was
\n looking at the wrong “version” of their domain in Webmaster Tools.\n<\/p>\n
\n The majority of tools and settings in Webmaster Tools operate on a per-site basis. This means \n Not all websites have URLs in the form \n What some people overlook is the fact that \n Even though Monday, October 20, 2008 Today we’re going back to basics. We’ll be answering the question: What is a website? …Okay, not exactly. But we will be looking into what a “website” means in the context of Webmaster Tools, what kind of sites you can add to your Webmaster Tools account, and what data you can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":85828,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_kb_kategori":[665],"ar_kb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-24061","ar_kb","type-ar_kb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_kb_kategori-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/24061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_kb"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb\/24061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_kategori?post=24061"},{"taxonomy":"ar_kb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_kb_etiket?post=24061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n that when you’re looking at, say, the
\n Top search queries report<\/a>,
\n you’re only seeing the top search queries for a particular site. Looking at the top queries for
\n www.example.com<\/code> will show you different data than looking at the top queries for
\n www.example.org<\/code>. Makes sense, right?\n<\/p>\nwww.example.com<\/code>, though. Your root URL may not
\n include thewww<\/code>subdomain (example.com<\/code>); it may include a custom subdomain
\n (rollergirl.example.com<\/code>); or your site may live in a subfolder, for example if it’s
\n hosted on a hosting site that’s available without payment
\n (www.example.com\/rollergirl\/<\/code>). Since we want webmasters to be able to access our
\n tools regardless of how their site is hosted, you can add any combination of domain, subdomain(s),
\n and\/or subfolder(s) as a “site” on your Webmaster Tools dashboard. Once you’ve
\n verified your ownership<\/a>
\n of that site, we’ll show you the information we have for that particular piece of the web, however
\n big or small it may be. If you’ve verified your domain at the root level, we’ll show you data for
\n that whole domain; if you’ve only verified a particular subfolder or subdomain, we’ll only show
\n you data for that subfolder or subdomain. Take
\n Blogger<\/a>
\n as an example—someone who blogs with Blogger should only be able to have access to the data
\n for their own subdomain (googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com<\/code>), not the entire
\n blogspot.com<\/code> domain.\n<\/p>\nwww<\/code> is actually a subdomain. It’s a very,
\n very common subdomain, and many sites serve the same content whether you access them with or
\n without the www<\/code>; but the fact remains that example.com<\/code> and
\n www.example.com<\/code> are two different URLs and have the potential to serve different
\n content. For this reason, they’re considered different sites in Webmaster Tools. Since they’re
\n different sites\u2014just like www.example.com<\/code> and www.example.org<\/code>—
\n they can have different data<\/em>. When you’re looking at the data for
\n www.example.com<\/code> (with thewww<\/code>subdomain) you’re not seeing the data for
\n example.com<\/code> (without the subdomain), and vice versa.\n<\/p>\nWhat can I do to make sure I’m seeing all my data?<\/h2>\n
\n
www<\/code>and the non-www version of your
\n domain to your Webmaster Tools account. Take a look at the data for both sites.\n <\/li>\nsite:<\/code> search for your domain without the www<\/code> (for example,
\n site:example.com<\/code>). This should return pages from your domain and any of your
\n indexed subdomains (www.example.com<\/code>, rollergirl.example.com<\/code>, etc.).
\n You should be able to tell from the results whether your site is mainly indexed with or without
\n the www<\/code> subdomain. The version that’s indexed is likely to be the version that
\n shows the most data in your Webmaster Tools account.\n <\/li>\nwww<\/code> by
\n setting your preferred domain<\/a>.\n <\/li>\n
\n site-wide 301<\/code> redirect<\/a>.\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\nexample.com<\/code> and www.example.com<\/code> may look<\/em> like
\n identical twins, any twins will be quick to tell you that they’re not actually the same person.
\n \ud83d\ude42<\/span> Now that you know, we urge you to give both your
\n www<\/code> and non-www sites some love in Webmaster Tools, and\u2014as usual\u2014to post any
\n follow-up questions in our
\n Webmaster Help Group<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n