Business + Marketing > SEO question; multiple URLs
Sounds like Google indexed mysitename.squarespace.com while you were creating your site. If mapped correctly, it will only index mysitename.com from this point forward.
If you're using a CNAME to map your domain, then the duplicate results you're seeing in Google will eventually be mysitename.com only. It believe it takes a bit for Google to drop the old indexing of your "squarespace.com" domain.
If you're using forwarding, that's a big problem for SEO. You'll want to use these instructions instead.
Hope this helps!
10.16.2009 |
Krystyn Heide
Krystyn Heide
I'm concerned that my site may not be SEO optimized. I'm particularly concerned about the following issue:
I seem to have 3 domain names. www.mysitename.squarespace.com, www.mysitename.com, and http://mysitename.com. I only registered www.mysitename.com with godaddy. If I type in www.mysitename.com it goes to my site but it reads http://mysitename.com in the address bar.
In my google webmaster account that I set up, it has http://mysitename.com and www.mysitename.com as two separate sites. Each has it's own set of links and search rankings. I'm worried that I have some sort of SEO issue here.
I ended up setting www.mysitename.com as my preferred site name in google webmaster to deal with this.
Was that the right thing to do? Do I have an SEO issue here? Anyone have any advice?