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Domain url with www or not ?

by mrgee
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I have a number of niche sites now. When viewing in a web browser the url's all seem to default to http://mydomain.com without the www. Now for my backlinks I have been using the url WITH the www. I am a little confused by this.. Should I be concerned.? Should I be aiming to have the domain appear with the www. And how does it seem to default to a url without the www. When first registered they all seem to include the www..??
Anyone your thought would be appreciated..
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  • Profile picture of the author Josh MacDonald
    I don't think you should be too concerned but I would start using the regular http version. Also, it could just be the browser. For example, I believe Google Chrome deletes the http and www, so your url would appear like:
    warriorforum.com in the address bar
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  • Profile picture of the author clickbump
    Originally Posted by mrgee View Post

    I have a number of niche sites now. When viewing in a web browser the url's all seem to default to http://mydomain.com without the www. Now for my backlinks I have been using the url WITH the www. I am a little confused by this.. Should I be concerned.? Should I be aiming to have the domain appear with the www. And how does it seem to default to a url without the www. When first registered they all seem to include the www..??
    Anyone your thought would be appreciated..
    I think "concerned" might be too strong a word. However, it absolutely will affect the value of those backlinks. Google sees your site as two different sites when you have links in both forms (with and without www).

    You want to make sure your backlinks are consistent, whether you use www or you dont, be consistent in how you create links to your site.
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    • Profile picture of the author NastyBlast
      Originally Posted by clickbump View Post

      Google sees your site as two different sites when you have links in both forms (with and without www).
      I'm not sure about this anymore. I have vision over about 80,000 domains and in the last two years I have seen almost no difference in the actual ranking performance of sites when it comes to inbound links to the domain root. I the past there was definitely a clear distinction made between www. and not but only from what we could see in the cache servers that Google makes public.


      Originally Posted by clickbump View Post

      You want to make sure your backlinks are consistent, whether you use www or you dont, be consistent in how you create links to your site.
      I do agree however that keeping your inbound links consistent is good policy
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    • Profile picture of the author scott g
      Originally Posted by clickbump View Post

      I think "concerned" might be too strong a word. However, it absolutely will affect the value of those backlinks. Google sees your site as two different sites when you have links in both forms (with and without www).

      You want to make sure your backlinks are consistent, whether you use www or you dont, be consistent in how you create links to your site.

      Set up through your Wordpress CPanel your preference or put it in a .htaccess to load your site and pages as www or non-www.

      If you check your backlinks in Yahoo! Site Explorer you will see a different # of backlinks.... B/c just like Scott said www is one site and non-www is another site. Just like a subdomain is it's viewed as it's own, completely individual site... That sort of applies to this question! :p LOL!

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  • Profile picture of the author Jeremy Banks
    pick one now and stick to it and only build links to one. I usually use it without the www. just to make the total url shorter. Also make sure you do a redirect from www to the non www domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author HavenX
    Try using your htaccess to redirect non-www to www this way all credits will be pass to the site which has the www in it.
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  • Profile picture of the author boydmk2
    Use domain removers to make it easier for bulk websites that has www
    but for me the standard should always have www, Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author michaely
    Hi, if you're using Wordpress, just do the following:

    1) Login to your wordpress admin page (not cpanel)

    2) Click "Settings" -> "General"

    3) Add "www" to the url for the following 2 fields:
    a) "Wordpress Address (URL)"
    b) "Site Address (URL)"

    4) Click "Save changes"
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  • Profile picture of the author adddirectoryp
    If you want your domain always include www just copy the code below and save as .htaccess file and upload to your server (root path). Please don't forget to change where yoursite to your domain name.


    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(yoursite\.com)(:80)? [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]


    Good Luck
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    • Profile picture of the author jack jastin
      Originally Posted by adddirectoryp View Post

      If you want your domain always include www just copy the code below and save as .htaccess file and upload to your server (root path). Please don't forget to change where yoursite to your domain name.


      RewriteEngine on
      RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(yoursite.com)(:80)? [NC]
      RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [R=301,L]


      Good Luck

      Really, In this case 301 redirect is having the only solution for this concern.

      You need to simply add a WWW redirect command at the root of your site simply using the rewrite rule above mentioned but yes, make sure you have an access to the root of your site. If you are not getting concerned with this, Definitely it will impact the ranking and SEO of your site.
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  • Profile picture of the author StoneWilson
    Of course you should concern about that, technically, search engine take them(with and without www domains) as two totally different things. Just like www.example.com and bbs.example.com, search engine will treat them separately.
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    • Profile picture of the author George Langer
      Google takes both version as 2 different sites so it splits Page Rank.
      The best eay is to use 301 redirect as mentioned above, also unify the versions with and without "http://" the same way.

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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Broody
    you need to choose one site you will build backlinks for
    www or non www and after that to make appropriate redirection
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  • Profile picture of the author kiranraj19
    i think with www is good than without www
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    • Profile picture of the author devonm
      I try to stick with www instead of without the www
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