ok has I watched a site slowly delist itself from Google, It got me thinking why is Google showing the NonWWW version of my site ! and to make matters worse a dns error had made the NonWWW not Resolve ! … a slow and painful lesson, I guess..

but what made Google stop indexing the www and move to the NonWWW , anyway some things that Google will return when you just search for the WWW and the NonWWW version of your url ..

When you search for either avis.co.uk OR www.avis.co.uk you get :

Avis Rent a Car : Hire a car in the UK or at any of our 5000 …
Avis welcomes you to the home of car rental online where you can book your UK
car hire or rent a car at any of our worldwide locations.
www.avis.co.uk/

Google can show you the following information for this URL:
· Show Google’s cache of www.avis.co.uk
· Find web pages that are similar to www.avis.co.uk
· Find web pages that link to www.avis.co.uk
· Find web pages from the site www.avis.co.uk
· Find web pages that contain the term “www.avis.co.uk”

I guess that’s perfect..

But what other’s we often see

Well what about kinghost.com and www.kinghost.com

hmmmm.. not so good and I’ve been seeing this quite a bit recently.

kinghost.com/

Google can show you the following information for this URL:
· Find web pages that are similar to kinghost.com
· Find web pages that link to kinghost.com
· Find web pages from the site kinghost.com
· Find web pages that contain the term “kinghost.com”

against the www version :

King Host
Home | Signup form | Terms & conditions | FAQ (Frequently asked questions) |
Members Area | How to get in touch with us. Welcome …
www8.kinghost.com/

Google can show you the following information for this URL:
· Show Google’s cache of www.kinghost.com
· Find web pages that are similar to www.kinghost.com
· Find web pages that link to www.kinghost.com
· Find web pages from the sitewww.kinghost.com
· Find web pages that contain the term “www.kinghost.com”

Hmmmm no snippet on the NONWWW, But the headers are ok.. but we did get a www8. ??

Headers for kinghost.com (69.90.63.51): HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:00:56 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.29 Set-Cookie: pbct=0;path=/;domain=kinghost.com;expires=Saturday, 2-Jun-2023 16:07:28 GMT; Last-Modified: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:42:13 GMT ETag: “880e49-1cba-41473b85″ Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 7354 Content-Type: text/html Expires: Thu,
19 May 2005 10:00:56 GMT

Headers for www.kinghost.com (69.90.63.51): HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:00:56 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.29 Set-Cookie: pbct=0;path=/;domain=kinghost.com;expires=Saturday, 2-Jun-2023 16:07:28 GMT; Last-Modified: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 18:42:13 GMT ETag: “880e49-1cba-41473b85″ Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 7354 Content-Type: text/html Expires: Thu, 19 May 2005 10:00:56 GMT

What about www.webposition.com ?? we all know they they felt the hurt …

Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.webposition.com
· If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link: www.webposition.com
· Find web pages from the site www.webposition.com
· Find web pages that contain the term www.webposition.com

But we did get the “If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link:”

And then if you have been really kicked hard you get the …

Sorry, no information is available for the URL www.xxxxxxxxx.com
· Find web pages from this site www.xxxxxxxxx.com
· Find web pages that Contain the term “www.xxxxxxxxx.com”

and if you are really lucky in a few weeks you will get “If the URL is valid, try visiting that web page by clicking on the following link:”