# Google picking up my old & new website when I upgraded

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**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [August 6, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/google-picking-up-my-old-new-website-when-i-upgraded/44132 "2024-08-06T19:19:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![keithd5678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d26b3c/32.png) [@keithd5678](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/keithd5678)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/google-picking-up-my-old-new-website-when-i-upgraded/44132/1 "2024-08-06T19:19:07Z")

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Hi during covid times I upgraded my website, (both via Rapidweaver) unfortunately I appear to have left some or all of the old pages loaded via FTP on the Justhost server.  
Google shows two names for my website:  
See picture.  
I’m now struggling (as I understand nothing about ‘Folders’ being hosted, via [Justhost.com?!](http://Justhost.com?!)) And I don’t want to delete the wrong ones!  
Can anyone help in layman’s terms?  
PS I’m using RW8 Thank you.

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**Author:** ![differentdan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/differentdan/32/33530_2.png) [@differentdan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/differentdan)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2024, 9:06pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/google-picking-up-my-old-new-website-when-i-upgraded/44132/2 "2024-08-07T21:06:02Z")

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Hi @keithd5678,

Not sure that screenshot is indicating anything about duplicate files/folders. It sort of seems like it’s just listing your naked domain ([revolutiondance.co.uk](http://revolutiondance.co.uk)) along with the full domain URL ([https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk](https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk)).

There is more information on how to add domain properties to Google Search Console:

> **[Add a website property to Search Console - Search Console Help](https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/34592?hl=en)**
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> A property is Search Console's term for a discrete thing that you can examine or manage in Search Console. A website property represents a website: that is, all pages that share the common domain o

I think you probably only need one of them added ~~(the one that actually shows up in the user’s browser address bar when they visit your site)~~, however I don’t use Google so…

When I visit [revolutiondance.co.uk](http://revolutiondance.co.uk) in my browser, it actually directs me to the unsecured http version of your site ([http://revolutiondance.co.uk](http://revolutiondance.co.uk)), which is bad.

I’d recommend forcing an https:// redirect so that the unsecured version of your site always redirects to https://. Make sure you have an SSL certificate installed on the site. Also, if you are wanting your website to load using [https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk](https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk), you will need to set up a non-www to www redirect as well, because I can visit both non-www and www versions in my browser.

Hope that makes sense, if not please let us know.

**EDIT:**

Actually, seems like you only need the [revolutiondance.co.uk](http://revolutiondance.co.uk) domain property in Google Search Console and it will cover all subdomains and the protocol. Seems you can delete that [https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk](https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk) domain property in Google Search Console as it’s redundant.

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**Author:** ![keithd5678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d26b3c/32.png) [@keithd5678](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/keithd5678)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/google-picking-up-my-old-new-website-when-i-upgraded/44132/3 "2024-08-09T21:40:59Z")

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Hi Dan,

Thank you for this.

I’m really not sure if I have fixed it, but have tried to follow instructions and added a forward to the http one 🤞

Would you mind just checking if both [revolutiondance.co.uk](http://revolutiondance.co.uk) http & https, are still being search via Google, as I’m not 100% sure how you found out both websites were being searched, when you looked! If you could double check that’d be great & in your own time. Very much appreciated & thanks for all your help.

Cheers

Keith

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**Author:** ![differentdan](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/differentdan/32/33530_2.png) [@differentdan](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/differentdan)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2024, 5:40pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/google-picking-up-my-old-new-website-when-i-upgraded/44132/4 "2024-08-13T17:40:59Z")

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> [@keithd5678](#):
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> Would you mind just checking if both [revolutiondance.co.uk](http://revolutiondance.co.uk) http & https, are still being search via Google

Looks like the site is successfully directing to https now, so you are all good there.

I’m still able to reach both [https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk](https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk) and [https://revolutiondance.co.uk](https://revolutiondance.co.uk) though. You will want to pick one and then direct the other one to it. For example if you want the site to load over [https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk](https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk), then you would need to redirect the non-www version to the www version.

Does your web host use cPanel? This should be easy to do from their redirect tool.

> [@keithd5678](#):
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> Very much appreciated & thanks for all your help.

Not a problem, happy to help.

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**Author:** ![keithd5678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d26b3c/32.png) [@keithd5678](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/keithd5678)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2024, 4:40pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/google-picking-up-my-old-new-website-when-i-upgraded/44132/5 "2024-08-19T16:40:56Z")

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Hi, really sorry to bother you again!

From your comment below (See lower down), does this mean I have the same website running twice?

As you state:  
‘I’m still able to reach both’.

If so, how will I know the correct one to redirect as both seen to show the same content/updates?

Again sorry if I’m missing the obvious. Thank you, Keith 🙏

\*\* I’m still able to reach both [[https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk](https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk) ]

([https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk](https://www.revolutiondance.co.uk)) and [https://revolutiondance.co.uk](https://revolutiondance.co.uk) though. You will want to pick one and then direct the other one to it.  
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