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  • Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:28 PMJGand Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    I know yahoo and google penalize a site that has uploaded a sitemap under www.lingerieoasis.com and lingerieoasis.com. I'm told they read this as duplicate content. Does MSN have a similiar penalty?

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  • Monday, February 23, 2009 5:24 PMBrett Yount Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    If you have not canonicalized your site, what you are asking is a possibility. Otherwise, no. We will only use the canonicalized version.

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    Program Manager, Live Search Webmaster Tools
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  • Monday, February 23, 2009 5:24 PMBrett Yount Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
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    If you have not canonicalized your site, what you are asking is a possibility. Otherwise, no. We will only use the canonicalized version.

    Brett
    Program Manager, Live Search Webmaster Tools
    • Marked As Answer byBrett Yount Monday, February 23, 2009 5:24 PM
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  • Wednesday, March 11, 2009 7:24 PMWave Shoppe Hawaiian Shirts Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Brett Yount said:

    If you have not canonicalized your site, what you are asking is a possibility. Otherwise, no. We will only use the canonicalized version.

    Brett

    Program Manager, Live Search Webmaster Tools



    Hi Brett, so what happens when you have properly canonicalized your site and Yahoo continues to show the www and non-www versions in the results?
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  • Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:46 AMPromoManagers.com Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    It takes time with Yahoo.  I've seen it happen countless times, it will take them literally weeks to remove the inappropriate version.  Live seems to do it much faster.

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