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I am having trouble updating the URL of my first uploaded website that I made from scratch. I have changed the the URL and have submitted to Google, but when I type in the name 'example' into Google my old website URL (www.example.com/example/) is displayed with the old title and meta tags. However when I type in example.com, which is the new URL, it shows first and it's the correct website with the correct tags and title.

How can I make the old URL http://www.example.com/example to just example.com? I have taken out the www. from the new URL, would that be a problem?

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    If you haven't already, you'll need to 301 redirect www.example.com to example.com and set your Preferred Domain in Google Webmaster Tools/Search Console. – dan♦ Aug 8 '16 at 1:35
  • @dan thanks for the answer! most of the 301 redirect are on new pages to old pages how can I redirect 'www.example.com' to 'example.com'? – fanir miah tarafdar Aug 8 '16 at 12:15
  • If you're redirecting the non-www URLs to www URLs, but your preferred URL is the non-www, then you'll need to replace those redirects with one of the examples under Catch all and redirect www to no-www. – dan♦ Aug 8 '16 at 21:21
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If you're using an apache server, you can add this to your .htaccess file:

# Enable Rewrite engine
RewriteEngine On
# Check if we're on the www subdomain
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.([^\.]+\.[^\.]+)$
# If the previous condition is true, redirect to non-www
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://%1/$1 [R=301,L]

The above code will redirect everything to a non-www version of your URL

More info >>

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  • Thanks for the answer, having troible implementing the statements. Do I put the www.example.com after the www\.? – fanir miah tarafdar Aug 8 '16 at 12:53
  • No. Don't change anything about the code. It's a generic redirect. – John R Perry Aug 9 '16 at 0:24

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