SEO and www to non-www (and vice versa) AFTER having settled for some time in one of them [duplicate]

SEO and www to non-www (and vice versa) AFTER having settled for some time in one of them [duplicate] - If a page has internal and external outgoing links to redirecting URLs, it’s returning 3xx (301, 302, etc.) HTTP status codes standing for redirection. This issue means that the page does not exist on a permanent or temporary basis. It appears on most of the popular web browsers, usually caused by a misconfigured website. However, there are some steps you can take to ensure the issue isn’t on your side. You can find more details about redirecting URLs by reading the Google Search Central overview. In this article, we’ll go over how you can fix the SEO and www to non-www (and vice versa) AFTER having settled for some time in one of them [duplicate] error on your web browser. Problem :

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I have been using non-www redirect in .htaccess for a couple of years now for my Wordpress site. I want to switch to redirecting to www because, among other reasons, a naked URL does not work with Cloudflare CDN. Will it hurt my SEO score?

Solution :

As you'll be using a redirect from non www to www all the previous incoming links and URL's will still be working and pointing to the correct content, so your SEO scores should not be affected.

The key here is that when ever changing URL's you have to have redirects (301) in place, so you wouldn't lose any SEO :)

I'll just in case mention that you do use the redirect, as all your site's pages should only either be www or non www, otherwise it could be classified as duplicate content.

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