will google penalize if WWW is removed from website?

12 years ago

Future of the internet? How so? www and without www is considered different to Google, so if you are going to go without www then make sure you do a 301 redirect for www to non www, that way you can ensure you have one version of your site. So if anyone went to www.site.com they get redirected to site.com, but future of the internet? No.

BTW this is a very common thing that has been going on for a long time, most SEO optimized sites have this redirection, either redirecting from www to non www or visa versa.

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clickbump

12 years ago

I second sillysoft's comments and I'll add that whenever you link to your site from within and without, always use the same URL prefix. For example, if you decide to drop the www, make sure that all your links are in the same form (site.com and NOT www.site.com)

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MikeFriedman

12 years ago

Originally Posted by clickbump

I second sillysoft's comments and I'll add that whenever you link to your site from within and without, always use the same URL prefix. For example, if you decide to drop the www, make sure that all your links are in the same form (site.com and NOT www.site.com)

I disagree. Do not build 100% of your links with www or non-www. Mix it up some. It would look unnatural to have 100% of links one way or the other. Just make sure you do the proper redirect.

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clickbump

12 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

I disagree. Do not build 100% of your links with www or non-www. Mix it up some. It would look unnatural to have 100% of links one way or the other. Just make sure you do the proper redirect.

We will have to agree to disagree on that one...

Originally Posted by Matt Cutts

Q: So how do I make sure that Google picks the url that I want?
A: One thing that helps is to pick the url that you want and use that url consistently across your entire site. For example, don’t make half of your links go to http://example.com and the other half go to http://www.example.com. Instead, pick the url you prefer and always use that format for your internal links.

Excerpted from http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seo-ad...onicalization/

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MikeFriedman

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Matt Cutts
Q: So how do I make sure that Google picks the url that I want?
A: One thing that helps is to pick the url that you want and use that url consistently across your entire site. For example, don't make half of your links go to IANA — Example domains and the other half go to IANA — Example domains. Instead, pick the url you prefer and always use that format for your internal links.

That is for internal links. Has nothing to do with external.

Best practice is to use...

http://domain.com
http://domain.com/
http://www.domain.com
http://www.domain.com/

Make the vast majority of your links link to the domain you have chosen. I would never make 100% of them to one domain or even 90% for that matter.

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rafiseo

Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

That is for internal links. Has nothing to do with external.

Best practice is to use...

http://domain.com
http://domain.com/
http://www.domain.com
http://www.domain.com/

Make the vast majority of your links link to the domain you have chosen. I would never make 100% of them to one domain or even 90% for that matter.

So slashes after the URLs make domains different? These are different?

http://domain.com
http://domain.com/

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bryce10

12 years ago

thanks guys, this solved my problem.

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palme

12 years ago

what if other sites make backlink to your site with www, which one of your site have this backlink? special after redirection

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Hossain

12 years ago

Mike is quite correct. I heard this sentence "Use same URL prefix" even from some well experienced SEO guys. But good practice is as mike said. I too recommend you to use all four prefixes and to do redirection. Also build 50%+ backlinks without anchor texts.

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will google penalize if WWW is removed from website?

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