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Old 01-28-2012, 05:19 PM  
rowan
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I set the preferred domain to be www.mydomain.com in Google Webmaster tools, and additionally set up a 301 redirect for any fetches from mydomain.com

...yet months later, G's index still has nearly as many mydomain.com URLs as www.mydomain.com URLs.
Just checked my logs, they only go back to September, but the 301 was definitely in place at that time. So it's been at least 5 months that they've continued to index something they're not supposed to.

1) I tell Google via GWT to prefer the www domain
2) I tell Googlebot via 301 that everything is on the www domain
3) The content on "both" domains is 100% identical, and they're both on the same single IP

I don't know how I can make it any clearer to them... unless I set up a dynamic robots.txt that blocks googlebot on domain.com, but not www.mydomain.com
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