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with or without www hurting SEO

by brett701
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Is there any issue if i had a shoe website and i type in:



www dot shoe dot com

AND

shoe dot com

and the top one will take me to www dot shoe dot com and the bottom one will take me to shoe dot com?

Thanks.
#hurting #seo #www
  • Profile picture of the author SEOCreative
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    It doesnt matter to the search engines. Just remember when building backlinks to stick with either the www or not. It matters that way.
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  • Profile picture of the author Natlex
    It does not matter. I mostly always use the non www. since it is the default with wordpress
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Yes, it is an issue as they can be seen as two separate websites.

    You need to set up a redirect from the non-www to the www version or vice-versa.

    If you are using WordPress, this is done automatically for you.
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    • Profile picture of the author brett701
      One of the sites is Dote net nuke, the other one is pure HTML with jquery, and the other is Wordpress
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    • Profile picture of the author brett701
      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      Yes, it is an issue as they can be seen as two separate websites.

      You need to set up a redirect from the non-www to the www version or vice-versa.

      If you are using WordPress, this is done automatically for you.
      As far as the type of hosting, which type do i want? right now i have a "baby shared plan" on hostgator
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      • Profile picture of the author linkvana
        Originally Posted by brett701 View Post

        As far as the type of hosting, which type do i want? right now i have a "baby shared plan" on hostgator
        Any hosting plan should be able to do the redirects. The type of redirects you want are 301 redirects.

        I believe HostGator is Apache hosting. This is the code you'd need for Apache:

        Code:
        RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^shoe.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.shoe.com/$1 [L,R=301]
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        • Profile picture of the author brett701
          Originally Posted by linkvana View Post

          Any hosting plan should be able to do the redirects. The type of redirects you want are 301 redirects.

          I believe HostGator is Apache hosting. This is the code you'd need for Apache:

          Code:
          RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^shoe.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.shoe.com/$1 [L,R=301]

          I Just Chose in the CPANEL 301 redirect. Is that ok?


          Also, the IP address is shared because it is the baby hosting plan. Is this ok?

          Thanks.
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          • Profile picture of the author linkvana
            Originally Posted by brett701 View Post

            I Just Chose in the CPANEL 301 redirect. Is that ok?


            Also, the IP address is shared because it is the baby hosting plan. Is this ok?

            Thanks.
            CPANEL 301 redirects will work as well, but I'm not sure if you can do a catchall redirect.

            For example, a catchall redirect would redirect shoe.com/blue-shoes to www.shoe.com/blue-shoes.

            I'm not sure if you can do that from CPANEL. A catchall redirect is best for this scenario.
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            • Profile picture of the author paulgl
              This is 2012. There's nothing to worry about.

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              If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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    • Profile picture of the author michaelrox27
      It is a very critical issue from SEO point of view. In order to give good weightage to website, you need to redirect from non www to www and it will surely help in boosting ranks in Google search engine.
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