Hi,

If i Google my website's "name removed by WS mod" the results page lists the non www version of my site.

Should I be worried about this and is there a way to rectify it?

Many thanks in advance,

Rob.

Hi Rob,
I am not quite sure what you intentions are… but that site tries to download a Trojan so I request that you do not ask people to help with your site until you correct the problem.

Charles

Charles,

Yes that was my concern too.

I originally serched for my site and my anti-virus popped up an alert. I denied access then tried the same search but the alert did not appear the 2nd time around. I thought perhaps it was a false alarm. However if you see it too I need to investigate this further.

Can you let me know any further detaisl regarding the risk that your software reports please Charles.

I'm not sure if this is a problem server side as even if I wanted to use blackhat methods I don't know the first thing about them so this really is a mystery.

Many thanks in advance, sincerely....

Rob.

Well my forte is not salvaging diseased websites, so you may want to ask your host for assistance or possibly upload a backup that’s is not infected.

Hi,

I have emailed the hosting company as advised.

If you check the source you can see there is nothing malicious there so I am really puzzled. Any input would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Rob.

Hi,

I think I have removed the malicious code, however regardless this does not answer the original question as to why the non-www version of the site is being indexed.

Does anyone know why this could be?

Thanks in advance,

Rob.

Personally, I am going off www. at the beginning of site urls. I never type www . google.co.uk; I type google.co.uk - and the same with my own site, and every site I do visit. I then get really pissed of when the site won't work without the wubble-yous.

back to the point:

I haven't seen your site, but here are my guesses:

You use relative linking within your site and the more important backlinks are not using www. in the link.

this would mean that when the spider comes in, it comes in on a non-www link and then follows all the relative links (relative to non-www); hence an index of non-www pages.

My Advice:

If they've indexed it as non-www then don't try yo change it - it could be detrimental. Instead start promoting the non-www version of your site.


There is another option:

Google webmaster tools allows you to set a preference (www. or non-www.) - go into google webmaster tools and have a play.