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Originally Posted by SemAdvance
Setting the preferred domain is refering to how the domain is displayed in the SERP. It never fixed the canonical URL issue which many webmasters mistakeningly thought / think that it did / does.
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Not anymore, see my post again, that has apparently changed. I found the page again mentioning this:
"Once you tell us your preferred domain name, we use that information for all future crawls of your site and indexing refreshes. For instance, if you specify your preferred domain as http://www.example.com and we find a link to your site that is formatted as http://example.com, we follow that link as http://www.example.com instead. In addition, we'll take your preference into account when displaying the URLs. If you don't specify a preferred domain, we may treat the www and non-www versions of the domain as separate references to separate pages."
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Canonical URLs is not much of a duplicate content issue, so much as it dilutes the PageRank of your site with links that point to http://www and www.
Best thing to do so that all engines affix the proper scoring to your website, is to fix things via mod rewrite for Apache Unix Linux boxes, or Isappi rewrite for windoze.
Below is the code for modification of apache server via the htaccess file
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourwebsite\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourwebsite.com/$1 [L,R=301]
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See my post again, I don't have any Canonical domain issue, I'm already using a 301 redirect.