Do you use www. in backlinks or not?

by kaseyp
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Do you know if it's better to use www. in the url when building backlinks or not?
#backlinks #seo #www
  • Profile picture of the author Nelapsi
    if your site is setup correctly it does not matter
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    • Profile picture of the author darrenlc
      Whichever you decide make sure you do a 301 direct so that if you gain backlinks from other sources they attributed to your domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author kiliki
    Nelapsi is right, it doesn't matter if you have your site setup right to automatically correct a visitor and make the landing url adjust to always include or always exclude the www. If you type in just "warriorforum.com" in your browser (without the quotes), you'll notice that it adjusts to add the www automatically. As long as you've setup your site to do that, it doesn't really matter. If you don't, then you could be losing valuable SEO traffic power to your site if it is being split between the www version of your site vs the non www version.
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  • Profile picture of the author seojedi
    All others are correct about the canonicalization of your domain. That said, when creating backlinks you want to vary the anchor text across keywords, http:// and www and without www. This is what a natural anchor text footprint will look like. Additionally, keyword anchor text doesn't typically link to a homepage so link it 80+% of the time to your internal pages.

    Users are more probable to leave a link like so http://www.yoursite.com on a forum than they are to type in http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?tp=forum?tr=12345Tfgf or the like.
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  • Profile picture of the author dcristo
    It doesn't really matter. The important thing is that you have a universal URL structure so you don't dilute link juice. Personally I think www is better because most will link using this format.
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  • Profile picture of the author Demetrius
    Usually I do not use it and I do not not think it will hurt me in any ways. If you have confusion in your mind, better use it. Just a few push in keyboard .
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