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Setting preferred domain name in Google indexing

-- In addition to my earlier posting: 'How to fix indexing www and non-www versions of domain' --

You can now tell to google for crawling your preferred domain. This is by adding your site to google sitemaps account (https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login). Then click the 'preferred domain' link to set yor favourite link. Once you set your preferred domain, Google will use that information for their future site indexing.

They also specified in their official blog that if you set your favorite domain as http://www.yourdomain.com and they find a link to that site formatted as http://yourdomain.com, they follow that link as http://www.yourdomain.com insted. Also your favorite link is displayed in the future search results pages. This way you can attain your PageRank more accurately.

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Comments:

Robert McCulloch, Thursday, October 05, 2006

Domain names are more important for SEO than ever today (October 05, 2006). The reason is that search engines have had to discount more and more on-page factors due to webmasters and their SEO efforts to get top ranking.


Domain names are the one on-page factor that is hard to cheat on. After all, how many top level domains can a site have?

MSN understands this and ranks a website with a keyword phrase within the domain name well ahead of other sites. For example, I registered a domain name (american-pitbulls.us) for a pitbull site and setup a blog about six months ago. Three months later I did a search on MSN for 'american pitbulls' and my blog came up #1! (Page 1 of 70,571 results)
No PageRank
A new domain name, 3 months old then
No links
No SEO - a WordPress Blog

The blog is still at #1 on MSN today ahead of all 70k sites. Feel free to check yourself, AdSense...

The full url is http://american-pitbulls.us/wp

I'm getting traffic from Google as well now. Anyway, you can see how important the domain name is in ranking well in MSN. Even at third in the search engine wars, MSN can push out a lot of traffic.

Robert McCulloch
http://attorney-blogs.info/

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