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Remove www from website?

by PimpinRice
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I was doing a little bit of research on google and around various forums and found out that removing the ".html" was recommend for better SEO practice. So then I think about the "www" and wonder if that has any impact on SEO wise. When making a campaign and referring your URL's without the "www" do you get better results and such?
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  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    Absolutely incorrect that removing .html (or any other extension) or using non-www version of your domain is better for SEO.

    Short answer is choose one format and then stick with it. Also, make sure you set up a 301 redirect from the www to non-www version of your site, or vice-versa.
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    • Profile picture of the author PimpinRice
      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      Absolutely incorrect that removing .html (or any other extension) or using non-www version of your domain is better for SEO.

      Short answer is choose one format and then stick with it. Also, make sure you set up a 301 redirect from the www to non-www version of your site, or vice-versa.
      Ah OK so I'm assuming that it doesn't improve nor does it degrade SEO improvements... And will take 301 into consideration.
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  • Profile picture of the author dadamson
    The 301 redirect can help you as you are essentially consolidating both versions of your website (www and non-www versions) into ONE version.

    This forwards traffic, search bots, and backlinks to only ONE version.

    So for example if you have been backlinking to both the www and the non-www then the backlinks will be split between two domains.

    The redirect will consolodate your links into just one domain and thus helping your SEo in that respect.

    You should also place a 301 redirect on your .html pages if they no longer exist and point them to their replacement URLs for the same reason.

    Nobody can say for certain that a URL with the .html suffix will hurt or help your SEO as Google keeps this a secret and constantly changes the algorithms anyway.

    I like to think a cleaner URL structure without the .html suffix will actually help you out (if ever so slightly) in the search engines.

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  • Profile picture of the author matricresult
    Originally Posted by PimpinRice View Post

    I was doing a little bit of research on google and around various forums and found out that removing the ".html" was recommend for better SEO practice. So then I think about the "www" and wonder if that has any impact on SEO wise. When making a campaign and referring your URL's without the "www" do you get better results and such?
    i dis agreee with this it is a part of the seo. i preffer "http://www" with the url
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  • Profile picture of the author shahedny
    This is no way would be a good seo technique as the www is a must for every site.
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    • Profile picture of the author MrSS
      These two take the word right out of my mouth, they gave the best solution:
      Originally Posted by UMS View Post

      Absolutely incorrect that removing .html (or any other extension) or using non-www version of your domain is better for SEO.

      Short answer is choose one format and then stick with it. Also, make sure you set up a 301 redirect from the www to non-www version of your site, or vice-versa.
      Originally Posted by dadamson View Post

      The 301 redirect can help you as you are essentially consolidating both versions of your website (www and non-www versions) into ONE version.

      This forwards traffic, search bots, and backlinks to only ONE version . . .
      It doesn't matter if your website's link have .html or any extension, be sure all of them are returning 1 page / 1 content only. Similar to your domain, stick to one domain only, whether with or without www.

      Originally Posted by shahedny View Post

      This is no way would be a good seo technique as the www is a must for every site.
      Can you say why? Look, mashable have www. in their domain, still they got pretty good traffic. Though you input www.mashable.com, you will got mashable.com still.
      Originally Posted by matricresult View Post

      i dis agreee with this it is a part of the seo. i preffer "http://www" with the url
      Can you justify why you say so?
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    • Profile picture of the author dadamson
      Originally Posted by shahedny View Post

      This is no way would be a good seo technique as the www is a must for every site.
      This is absolutely incorrect ^

      It doesn't really matter whether you use www or not www, in fact I prefer the cleaner look without the www so this is what I do.

      Just 301 redirect one of them to your preferred version and you will be fine.

      To back this up I have successfully ranked sites which have www and sites that have non-www in #1 positions in Google, Yahoo, Bing, and Altavista, therefore your statement is wrong.
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  • Profile picture of the author JayWiz
    The purpose to redirect www to non-www or non-www to www is to point all your traffics, bots, backlinks into one destination. If you have both available then your traffic will split between www and non-www. So it's good practice to use either one of them.

    There are several ways to do this:
    1. Htaccess. The most common way but if you are not careful can cause server error.
    2. Several hosting like dreamhost allow you to set this option directly from your panel. This way is easy and guaranteed will work.
    3. Php redirection.

    There is no real proof not using ".html" has impact on seo, it's just better visualization, in the past people always use ".html" because it's built using regular html files but right now there are so many cms like wordpress and they use non ".html" version which is shorter and looks nice in my opinion.
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  • Profile picture of the author uoftenwinny
    I don't think it works without www.
    Or is it correct that Internet technology update so quickly?
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