WWW and non-WWW version of the URL are both accessible

[jaredkinger]

Both the WWW and non-WWW version of the URL are accessible. Only one should be used and the other should be redirected. Having both active will cause duplicate content issues with Google as Google views them as separate URLs. I'd recommend redirecting the WWW to the non-WWW.

Examples:

• https://www.app.geo.ca/en-ca/map-browser
• https://app.geo.ca/en-ca/map-browser

[jaredkinger]

@pvautour I would recommend prioritizing this as duplicate content issues have a negative impact on SEO. By having both versions of the URL accessible and indexable it splits the link equity between the two versions. Since the content is an exact duplicate and search engines view the domains as separate it can cause confusion in the algorithms. This ultimately leads to low rankings and potentially not being ranked at all.

This also impacts how quickly pages will be indexed and crawled as having the crawlers will end up crawling the same page twice using crawling budget.

When redirecting www to non-www it would be best to ensure that the path is maintained during the redirect to preserve and consolidate any ranking gained by www versions of URLs.