Domain and SubDomain

Hello All!

I started out using the free render and used a subdomain.

Now that I’m further along my journey I decided to purchase a domain.

However whenever I search for my website on google, the subdomain appears and not my domain i bought. I suppose it is something with SEO optimization, or maybe its a setting in render, or a setting on namecheap

Im really new to all this and I would just like some starting information because i have no idea where to begin regarding my issue. What even is this / what is this called? Where can i learn about this more? I would appreciate some articles or vocab about my issue so I can begin to research this further and learn about this.

Thank you!

Did you submit the domain to Google to index? This isn’t anything Render specific here - you typically want a single canonical URL for your web site and have Google index that, it’s SEO optimization - see Canonical URLs: A Beginner‘s Guide to Canonical Tags for details