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edited Jul 26, 2017 at 19:36

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When I select example.com as my preferred site version like below. It gives me an error as seen in the image. The site was setup as https://example.com before Google Webmasters was added.

Why doesn't it allow me to add a preferred domain to the verified https site?
Why do I need to verify http://www.example.comhttp://www.example.com to prove I own the other 4 versions (http://www.http://www. + http://http:// + https://www.https://www. + https://https://)? It doesn't make sense.
Do I really need to change the nginx config file to allow traffic to all 4 versions of the domain and authenticate them all with google webmasters to use just the https non www version?

When I select example.com as my preferred site version like below. It gives me an error as seen in the image. The site was setup as https://example.com before Google Webmasters was added.

Why doesn't it allow me to add a preferred domain to the verified https site?
Why do I need to verify http://www.example.com to prove I own the other 4 versions (http://www. + http:// + https://www. + https://)? It doesn't make sense.
Do I really need to change the nginx config file to allow traffic to all 4 versions of the domain and authenticate them all with google webmasters to use just the https non www version?

When I select example.com as my preferred site version like below. It gives me an error as seen in the image. The site was setup as https://example.com before Google Webmasters was added.

Why doesn't it allow me to add a preferred domain to the verified https site?
Why do I need to verify http://www.example.com to prove I own the other 4 versions (http://www. + http:// + https://www. + https://)? It doesn't make sense.
Do I really need to change the nginx config file to allow traffic to all 4 versions of the domain and authenticate them all with google webmasters to use just the https non www version?

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asked Jul 26, 2017 at 8:35

Rob

Can't add preferred version to Google Webmasters / Search Console

When I select example.com as my preferred site version like below. It gives me an error as seen in the image. The site was setup as https://example.com before Google Webmasters was added.

Why doesn't it allow me to add a preferred domain to the verified https site?
Why do I need to verify http://www.example.com to prove I own the other 4 versions (http://www. + http:// + https://www. + https://)? It doesn't make sense.
Do I really need to change the nginx config file to allow traffic to all 4 versions of the domain and authenticate them all with google webmasters to use just the https non www version?

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