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WWW. Or not?

by TomBuck
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I looked on google for a random search and all of the top results were www. results. I then looked at my site and all of my results were not. I also always get backlinks just to http://site not www.site, I have recently found out maybe this is wrong? I am a little worried so I have a few questions

1.) When backlinking should I use www. or not?
2.) How can I change it so my websites show up in results as www.?
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  • Profile picture of the author papango
    Your website with w w w is as any other sites just an alias of the one without w w w. But obviously on Internet, most of the time it's more relevant to backlink the w w w one as people have your website in mind with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Thomas De
    There is no need to switch to www. You can choose if you would like to appear with www or without with a .htaccess file

    To forward all requests to www.yoursite.com you need to to the following steps:

    Download the current .htacces file from your server via FTP and include the following code. If there is no .htaccess-file create a textfile with your favourite texteditor and copy in:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine on

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.yourdomain\.com$
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
    </IfModule>

    Replace "yourdomain" and save the file as htaccess.txt, now upload the file in the root directory of your server and rename the file to .htaccess without an ending.

    What it does: If somebody types in yourdomain.com, he will be forwarded to www.yourdomain.com. Also the googlebot will follow this rule and after a few weeks, all your pages are with www in googles index.
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    • Profile picture of the author TomBuck
      Originally Posted by Thomas De View Post

      There is no need to switch to www. You can choose if you would like to appear with www or without with a .htaccess file

      To forward all requests to www.yoursite.com you need to to the following steps:

      Download the current .htacces file from your server via FTP and include the following code. If there is no .htaccess-file create a textfile with your favourite texteditor and copy in:

      <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
      RewriteEngine on

      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.yourdomain.com$
      RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]
      </IfModule>

      Replace "yourdomain" and save the file as htaccess.txt, now upload the file in the root directory of your server.
      That looks insanely complicated. Does it make a difference?
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    • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
      Doesn't matter which you use (at least for SEO) as long as you pick one and stick to it.

      The reason being example . com and www . example . com are interpreted as two different urls, so links to one don't count for the other.

      Most of my sites skip the www because it looks nicer in other media I use.
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  • Profile picture of the author BarryOnline
    If your site does not have www. them make sure to back link without it.

    None of my sites have www. - you really don't need it.

    If you want to change it, go into wordpress dash board in general settings & you'll see option in there.
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    • Profile picture of the author TomBuck
      Originally Posted by BarryOnline View Post

      If your site does not have www. them make sure to back link without it.

      None of my sites have www.

      If you want to change it, go into wordpress dash board & in general settings, you see option in there.
      So whatever I do, whether it be with www or without keep the backlinking the same?

      And

      It makes no difference?
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      • Profile picture of the author BarryOnline
        Originally Posted by TomBuck View Post

        So whatever I do, whether it be with www or without keep the backlinking the same?

        And

        It makes no difference?
        It makes no differance if you use www. or not.

        Make sure your back link URL match the domain you are using, so if you don't have www. then don't back link with it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jack Duncan
    Tom,
    Here's the important thing...

    When you type in your site with the w w w or without the w w w , you should still end up and the same page (one should redirect to the other)

    This would also be the case if you typed w w w . mysite . com/index.html

    etc...

    So in other words, you should be able to type all these variations, yet still be redirected to the one version that you prefer.

    You can use a simple redirect to fix this if that is not the case...

    Hope this helps,
    Jack Duncan
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