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Declined submissions and error messages like URL not under Sitemap path are often caused by an incorrect usage of multiple server names. Why are example.com and www.example.com different, when both serve the same content? How to avoid confusion? Google Sitemaps KB · Index · Expand · Web Feed
Many Web hosting services configure Web sites in a way that they are accessible under different addresses. This is meant to please users, but very often the feigned convenience results in all sorts of troubles, because the setup stays half done. Each server name is a unique address, like a phone number, and points to different content by default. Many sites host each sub-domain on its own computer, or even run multiple server computers per prefix. Those huge sites define the standard for small sites too. To allow future scalability, one should make use of sub-domain prefixes, e.g. www for Web contents. So what can I do to avoid those troubles? I'm pretty sure that I don't use both server names in my HTML code, but I cannot control external links and URL drops pointing to my site. Also, I want that a visitor can type in the shortened variant and actually lands on my site. First, use only one server name in URLs, business cards, flyers, TV and radio spots ... Google Sitemaps, link submissions and internal links as well. Your decision makes one of both server names the canonical server name of your Web site. You must stick with the chosen server name, that is you cannot change your mind later on.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006 by Sebastian
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