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Apr 07.2016

I am not very server-side savvy and we just switched to a new host recently.

After examining the Control Panel thoroughly of stablehost.com, I found out that we own:
[url]www.integralprocesssolutions.com[/url] AND [url]http://integralprocesssolutions.com[/url].

My problem is that the Google submittal instructions are to submit each varied url and select a preferred url. So from that I took it to understand that when we choose to go https in the future I will have to submit that separately as well.

But…for now…
I submitted the site on the old server and on the new google submission as:
[url]http://www.integralprocesssolutions.com[/url].

Then I submitted to Google as:
[url]www.integralprocesssolutions.com[/url] and [url]http://integralprocesssolutions.com[/url].

The settings only display 2 submittals in Google and I can’t find the option to change the preferred name. Is there a recommended url address to be the preferred choice? Is Google seeing the longest url as a duplicate of one of the other two? Is my solution to delete them and start again?

Sorry to be so wordy but am confused. Please help. Thank you.

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@brknnyApr 11.2016 — As per the above content your website consists canonical issues which is a bad sign for a website.Google or any searech engine considers this as two different websites as the content is same in both sites ,there exists duplicate content issues.So you nned to resolve canonical issue by placing .htaccess file in the root domian.Or even you can implement 301 redirection.Make sure whether with www or without www the url should be same.YOu should set your preferred domian in htaccess file.If you are doing seo for your website then you can set preferred domian of your website in google webmasters.
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@metro-manauthorApr 16.2016 — Thank you for your reply. Have been researching .htaccess since I first posted. I found a .htaccess file in the top level of my public_html folder and moved it to the root folder of my site. After reading, I discovered every directory can have it's own .htaccess file. I am only interested in the rewrite to preferred domain. Did my server create this file I found or did this come along from the old server? I've learned how to make the file (WordPad allows no file name). After reading posts in the forums at StableHost I found out that mod_rewrite is compatible with their server. The .htaccess file I have now is the original from top level of public_html and it uses rewrite_cond. Which syntax would you go with?

Thanks for the reply.
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