Do both the "www" and non-"www" versions of your site go to the same page? For example:

www.tonyherman.com/skiing/index.html

and:

tonyherman.com/skiing/index.html

They shouldn't. To some search engine spiders, this makes it look like 2 sites instead of one. They could think that there are 2 sites with the same, exact information on it and they could think that you're mirroring your site or copying information from one domain to the other. This could be diluting your content if it's seen on 2 domains. It could also be causing search engine spiders to crawl your site twice, taking up more of your allowed bandwidth from your web host (possily racking up extra charges for bandwidth) - I've seen it happen.

So what do you do to prevent and stop this? It's easy if your site is hosted on an Apache web server (most Linux web hosts use this and it is the most popular web server). Just follow my instructions on how to make both the www and non-www version of your site only show the www version of your site. I've done it, it's easy.

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