[directgolf]

Hi Fellas
Please excuse my stupidness but would appreciate it if you could answer a couple of questions for me?

1. for seo purposes i understand the more links you have coming into your site and the less you have going out is better for you, so does google adwords decrease your seo or will it improve it coz it is a google programme?
2. when i type in site:www.directblahblahblahblah....... (my site) i get 71 pages found however when i type in site:directgohjsahjkhdkj........ it finds 120 pages roughly, why is this is it common? is it anything to worry about???

Cheers fellas apologies again for not knowing but its driving me mad???

[pgo]

Google says that AdWords do not influence your search rankings. However, they have ads on all search pages.

On the second part, as far as I know, "www" is a subdomain, so Google is probably indexing two separate sets of content which is probably neither bad nor good. You'd do well, I think, to force either "www" or "no-www" via htaccess (there's tons of tutorials on that). Personally, I force "no-www" on all my personal sites.

You can post your actual URL, you know.

[directgolf]

nice one pgo just being doing my head will look into the now
cheers again!!!!!

[iblastoff]

Originally Posted by pgo

Google says that AdWords do not influence your search rankings. However, they have ads on all search pages.

On the second part, as far as I know, "www" is a subdomain, so Google is probably indexing two separate sets of content which is probably neither bad nor good. You'd do well, I think, to force either "www" or "no-www" via htaccess (there's tons of tutorials on that). Personally, I force "no-www" on all my personal sites.

You can post your actual URL, you know.

i would say the double indexing is definitely bad. duplicate content on what is seen as two different locations (subdomain) probably means you're competing ranking with yourself.

[pgo]

I would imagine, though, that Google is aware of the "www/no-www" issue and doesn't penalise such duplicate content.

[roto]

Originally Posted by pgo

I would imagine, though, that Google is aware of the "www/no-www" issue and doesn't penalise such duplicate content.

Maybe it's an exercise in futility, but I redirect to the www just to be safe for all sites via:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}  ^domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)         http://www.domain.com/ [L,R]

Great stuff from Google on duplicate content here:

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Deftly dealing with duplicate content

[pgo]

Originally Posted by roto

Maybe it's an exercise in futility, but I redirect to the www just to be safe for all sites via:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}  ^domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)         http://www.domain.com/ [L,R]

Great stuff from Google on duplicate content here:

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Deftly dealing with duplicate content

I totally agree, but I generally redirect to no-www.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$
RewriteRule (.*) http://domain.com/$1 [R=Permanent]

[roto]

6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other, maybe? Personal preference, I guess. If you're consistent, that should be all that (mostly) matters.

[directgolf]

Cheers fellas learnt a lot
there was option in my google webmasters tools to only find www. or without so that has cleared that one up for me.
nice one