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site: question....

by Brian Boyd Banned
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Quick question...

When i type in* site:mysite.org *on Google I get results back for my website and the "www" is not in front of the rest of the URL (ie: it says google.com instead of www*google*com--- sorry, not enough posts to have a link in the text) ....The results for my subpages all have the www in front of the URL, but the home page does not. There seems to be a connection between this and how the pages are ranking. For example, the subpages all rank for their keywords (even the main keyowrd) but the homepage is nowhere to be found at all. Hope this makes sense!!!

Have I done something wrong?

Any advice?

Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author RickDayle
    Look at how your links are coded on your homepage.

    If someone comes to your homepage and clicks on a link, you can send them to a "relative link" or "absolute link". Look at your page source.

    If the <a href= begins with www. and then your domain name and the page, you are using absolute links.

    If the ,a href= just has the page name, relative to the home page, then you are using relative links.

    The big difference is that if you enter a site as domain-dot-com, and use relative links, the pages will be ranked/rated as domain-dot-com. If you enter a site as www-dot-domain-dot-com, with relative linking, the pages will then be ranked as www-dot-domain-dot-com.

    With an absolute linking strategy, only the home page will see different results, because every sub page will always be whatever plan you use in the absolute link. (www or non-www).

    Also, what you see in the site:domain-dot-com is mostly the result of backlinks. If you have lots of www-dot-domain backlinks, you will see it in the list. If, on the other hand, your backlinks are just domain-dot-com links, you will see it, not the www entry. I've sites that are rated both ways, before I started a consistent backlinking strategy.
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  • Profile picture of the author Bradley J Anderson
    So does www or no www make a difference in search engine rankings? I wouldn't think so, but I've never asked or tested. :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author aheil
    I don't think it matters if there is a www or not.
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    • Profile picture of the author Brian Boyd
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      RickDayle- Thanks for the info! I really appreciate it.

      Regarding if "www" matters for rankings, I agree, I wouldn't think so. However, my whole thing is that I see a relationship between if "www" is present or not, and how my sites rank. hence, my question...

      Thanks again!
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    • Profile picture of the author Linda_C
      Originally Posted by aheil View Post

      I don't think it matters if there is a www or not.
      It doesn't matter *if* there is a www or not - it just matters that all your links are consistent.

      In google's eyes, http://www.warriorforum.com and http://warriorforum.com are two different urls (even though they are the same page) and each can have different pagerank and serp ranking.

      Some sites have their mainpage rank value divided by 3 urls -- with and without the www -- and also index.html or index.php. That can really reduce the pagerank value and ranking of your main page.

      So it's best to pick one and use it consistently. Also point the one you're not using to the other using 301 or a redirect or canonical plugin. If you don't, you could be reducing your own pagerank by splitting it among 2 or 3 urls that google sees as 'different' even though they're all the same.
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