to WWW or not to WWW
Hi,
Whenever I create a new site I always create the account as domain.com on my Reseller server rather than domain.com
I now have 20 or so sites and have noticed that they are clocking up diff PR in google for the domain.com and the domain.com version....
I did it this way so people accidentally leaving off the www still find my sites and that seems to work fine.
This poses the question, am I doing thing backwards ?
Are there other issuse with doing this ?
Thanks,
Dude.
Greg K posted this at 06:07 — 19th July 2005.
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I have found it is best to have both. I'm the type who first tries it without the WWW if I'm just typing it in by hand. However, may people always do the www.
Do you know how many times I have told someone at work to go to "webmail.pair.com" and you watch them, and they enter webmail.pair.com (which they do have setup to work)
The hosting company I use automatically sets up the www for me.
-Greg
chrishirst posted this at 07:59 — 19th July 2005.
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The SEs do sometimes sort this out, BUT there can be problems along the way, because the www and non-www are seen as duplicates. Eventually they will only show one or the other but you have no choice over which one, and each SE may show a different version.
You should have a 301 redirect in place to ensure that only one version, Your preferred one is shown in the SERPs
Chris
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davidjaymz posted this at 18:34 — 21st July 2005.
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I have this bit of code in my .htaccess file to redirect everyone from www. to .
RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} <a href="http://www.domain.com" class="bb-url">domain.com</a>
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
ttst posted this at 18:28 — 26th July 2005.
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www. before a domain is a waste of time and never should have been invented. Imagine those people who type " h t t p : / / w w w . ... "
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