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    • GregDixson
      GregDixson Subscriber last edited by

      I have a site with a ton of errors... things including overlong titles, etc.
      Upon fixing some, they have then re-appeared in the next crawl report as www3.

      could anyone explain this simply?, and how I should approach the errors.. should I set to ignore the www3. or something else?

      thanks in advance

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      • NaeemGari
        NaeemGari last edited by

        This is typically done by a web developer to identify the domain host. Please ask your web developer to change the web server configuration. At present it has been set by your developer to www3. which after fixing the technical bugs should be restored to www. web server location.

        While the technical issues are being fixed please ensure the www3. web server is password protected - meaning that it can be accessed only by entering a username & password. This will block search engines from crawling and indexing the staging domain and avoid content duplication indexing issues and safeguard your SEO.

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