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Use http://www. or just http://wesite.com for link building

by Grandstrand621
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Does it make a difference when you are building links to your site if you add the www before your website name or not? I have heard that it does. Just want to make sure.
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  • Profile picture of the author The Pension Guy
    Use the version that you defined as the default in Google WebmasterTools for your site.
    Once you settled with one version - never change it.
    See this thread, too:
    http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-...omain-com.html
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  • Profile picture of the author jazbo
    Those variations count as two different URL's, so stick to one version and make sure you have a google webmaster account to tell Google which one you are using as well.
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    • Profile picture of the author AJsVRE
      Did you set your domain up with a .htaccess file? If not, do a google search for it, you'll see how to set it up so that things get indexed the way that you want. (either the http:// version or the www. version)

      Pick which one you want and then make sure you build links using the one you picked. If links get build the other way from what you chose, it won't hurt you, but you want to keep things consistent.

      The reason it "matters" as you've heard, is that they are two completely different sites - to search engines. Even though they are the same exact thing, this is the "duplicate content" penalty that you hear of. You have duplicate versions of the same content on YOUR website.. the http:// version, and the www. version. Set up a .htaccess so that the one you don't want 301 redirects to the one you DO want, and then the search engines won't see two different url's with the exact same content on your domain. (because that is what they are seeing if you don't do it)
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