Will my SEO rankings get hurt, if I remove the sub-domain www?

by ernestcobb26

Posted: 14 years ago 5 replies

I have a domain that is ranked really well. To the same site, the websitesand lead without redirect and that is the issue here. I have been creating a new website and I don't want to have the 'www' sub domain in it. Could it be possible that the sub-domain have some impact on the rankings of the domain? Is there anyone who has any suggestions or some advice to offer? Could search engines ignore the sub-domain if it has observed that the site is the same? If I remove the sub domain, would my SEO rankings get hurt?

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searchnology 14 years ago

I know subdomains are looked at as completely separate domains from the TLD so normally an additional subdomain gets no benefit from the SEO efforts of the default subdomain. However I am not sure if you loose any SEO benefits if you just want to change your default subdomain from www to something else.
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marketguy

14 years ago

Originally Posted by ernestcobb26

I have done this without any problems.

Just make sure you tell big G in webmaster tools.

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updapunx 14 years ago

all you really need to do is make sure you have a redirect in place that will send all of the www traffic to your non-www pages. this can be easily done through htaccess.
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- miranon 14 years ago
  
  Put this in your .htaccess file:
  
  Code:
  
  <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yoursite.com [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301] RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9} /([^/]+/)*index.html HTTP/ RewriteRule ^(([^/]+/)*)index.html$ http://yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L] </IfModule>
  
  This will redirect http://www.yoursite.com, http://www.yoursite.com/index.html and http://yoursite.com/index.html to http://yoursite.com.
  
  Also, make sure to use the non-www version of your site in the google webmaster tools.
  
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David Bleidt 14 years ago

hey I have a similar tquestion and don't want to start a new thread.

I created a new website and it is without the "www" right now. But I did all my backlinks to the "www"-version of my website. My All-In-One-SEO plugin for wordpress canonicals the website to the non-"www"-version.
Are there any issues in terms of SEO for me?

David
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Will my SEO rankings get hurt, if I remove the sub-domain www?

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