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Faiz Mohamed Haneef
Faiz Mohamed Haneef

Reputation: 3596

Google site: search operator returning conflicting results

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?rd=1

Based on the above link, I am able to see the indexed pages. However, I see varying results as below.

Are they supposed to return different results based on http protocols and/or trailing slashes as in example below?

site:https://www.desiza.com returns 26,800 results
site:https://www.desiza.com/ returns 21,000 results
site:www.desiza.com  returns 9640 results
site:www.desiza.com/ returns 4290 results

Which version is appropriate version? Thank you

Upvotes: 0

Views: 80

Answers (1)

minion
minion

Reputation: 4353

Google considers url with "/" and without "/" as two different urls. Similarly the case for http and https. Since the way it considers it returns different result sets for different queries. you can solve it either using rel="canonical" or doing a 301 redirect.

Upvotes: 0

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