: Google doesn't show "www" in results After searching my site on Google I have found that the URL that is shown doesn't contain www at the beginning, why? This is my virtualhost: <VirtualHost

@Tiffany637

As bybe pointed out, you are redirecting from non-www prefix to www prefix URLs, which is normally enough to change the way URLs are listed the SERPs.

However the redirect is incorrectly defined as a temporary 302 redirected. 302 redirects are notorious for causing issues in Google cache and you should be using a permanent 301 redirect instead.

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@Speyer207

Looking at your site. Your site is enforcing which means that it's impossible to access your site without since the browser will redirect. Since the Googlebot would be redirected as a user would Google would not index no-www URLs unless both and no-www versions were accessible.

From the looks of it, you have recently enforced Within your vhost conf file, Google is renowned for taking weeks, months and in some cases can take a whole year depending on the volume of URLs.

I believe that Google does this on purpose, obviously it doesn't want webmasters constantly changing URLS but also it doesn't want to quickly index something that could be a webmaster hiccup with consequences of hurting his or her rankings, so I believe that Google will monitor the page, and site then after X crawls it'll reflect those changes. Now how many crawls, time or what not is anyone's guess but this is completely normal.

Google is aware of your changes since I can see newer pages with in the index, to answer your question and correct me if I'm wrong in anyway, you just need to wait longer!

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@Sarah324

If you want to explicitly tell Google to show your domain with the www you can set your preferred domain in your Google Webmaster Account.


The preferred domain is the one that you would liked used to index
your site's pages (sometimes this is referred to as the canonical
domain). Links may point to your site using both the www and non-www
versions of the URL (for instance, www.example.com and
example.com). The preferred domain is the version that you want
used for your site in the search results.

If you see a message that your site is not indexed, it may be because
it is indexed under a different domain. For example, if you receive a
message that example.com is not indexed, make sure that you've
also added www.example.com to your account (or vice versa), and
check the data for that site.

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
www.example.com and we find a link to your site that is
formatted as example.com, we follow that link as
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.

It may take some time before you see this change fully reflected in
our index. All pages that currently display the non-preferred version
of the URL in the index will remain in the index that way until we
refresh our indexing of those pages.

Specify a preferred domain:

1.On the Webmaster Tools Home page, click the site you want.

2.Click the gear icon , and then click Site Settings.

3.In the Preferred domain section, select the option you want.

You may need to verify ownership of both the www and non-www versions
of your domain. Because setting a preferred domain impacts both
crawling and indexing, we need to ensure that you own both versions.
Typically, both versions point to the same physical location, but this
is not always the case. Generally, once you have verified one version
of the domain, we can easily verify the other using the original
verification method. However, if you've removed the file, meta tag, or
DNS record, you'll need to repeat the verification steps.

Note: Once you've set your preferred domain, you may want to use a 301
redirect to redirect traffic from your non-preferred domain, so that
other search engines and visitors know which version you prefer.

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