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Hello,

I've been watching this website I created for my friend, and feel like I'm constantly fighting an uphill battle with Google.

To begin with, I would like all of the webpages in Google have www. before the domain name. So what I did was signup for Google Webmaster tools and select that as my preferred option. It seemed to slowly start to work over time, and 4 of the 5 pages of the site were indexed. Although what bothers me is the "contact" and "thank you" page were even indexed and the homepage was not.

Then I logged on to Google webmaster tools again today, and found that only 2 of the 5 pages were indexed. And the only two pages indexed were the "contact" and "thank you page!" I even told XSitePro to EXCLUDE them!

I'm really starting to get worried, anyone know what might be going on?

Thanks,

Brandon

To make all your pages have www add the code below to your .htaccess file on your server -



changing "yourwebsitename" for the actual domain name.

Jason

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Hey Jason,

I believe Copywolf mentioned that code on another thread of mine awhile back. I was wondering if this code would affect the way search engines displayed my domain name or not. Would they still show it as mywebsitename.com and then redirect to www.mywebsitename.com? Or would they start to show it as www.mywebsitename.com?

And do you have any idea why the "thank you" and "contact" pages are being indexed but not my homepage? And why some of my pages were de/un-indexed?

Thanks for the help.

Hi users,

Been searching the forums and this looks like a possible solution. I don't like to re-post something already answered.

The problem I am having is that every time I copy pre-published websites, the Index/home page keeps changing throughout the website.

Each page has it in two places and EVERY time I reload the page to the server it changes this:

<span class="xsp1INFO_BAR_MENU"><a class="mainlinksINFO_BAR_MENU" href="http://lightningboltphotography.com/" target="">HOME</a></span>

The link should be this:

<span class="xsp1INFO_BAR_MENU"><a class="mainlinksINFO_BAR_MENU" href="http://lightningboltphotography.com/" target="">HOME</a></span>

I then manually have to change this in EVERY single page as there isn't any method on my FTP tat can find and replace.

Hope I have explained this properly?

WILL YOUR SOLUTION ABOVE WORK FOR THIS ISSUE?

Mike