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will not having 'www' on my address affect seo?

by Pat Ordenes
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I haven't tried not having this on my site, and was wondering if anyone knew for sure if having 'www' in you address helps at all...
#address #affect #seo #www
  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    remove it, have non-www. the prominence is higher
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  • Profile picture of the author bgmacaw
    No real SEO problem although you'll find many people who aren't all that Internet savvy will insist on typing in 'www' before your address. To help them out, and for Google too, setup a redirect in your htaccess file to manage this. If you're using WordPress there are plugins that will do this for you.
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  • Profile picture of the author Pat Ordenes
    well, when I type www before my address, it goes to my site anyway, so it must be enabled. Thanks guys!
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  • Profile picture of the author billionareHuman
    doesn't affect SEO, and you can set your prefered address in Google webmaster tools. A lot of people who do not work in the Internet world will put in WWW anyway.

    Having no WWW helps with offline advertising when you want a shorter address, so I'd go for the no www
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    • Profile picture of the author askloz
      doesn't affect it? course it does, plays a minor role, rankings are higher with non-www over www. cos www is not a stop word, it actually has a definition. type in www in the search engine and you'll see all the www of people's domain names listed in bold.
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      • Profile picture of the author intelinside
        Originally Posted by askloz View Post

        doesn't affect it? course it does, plays a minor role, rankings are higher with non-www over www. cos www is not a stop word, it actually has a definition. type in www in the search engine and you'll see all the www of people's domain names listed in bold.
        I sort of agree with it but it won't take you from say page 2 to 1 but yes, it may push you up a bit.
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        • Profile picture of the author askloz
          hehee, want a bet? that all depends on the phrase you're aiming for, but most easy ones that land you on page 2 off the bat, will push you to 1st page

          Originally Posted by intelinside View Post

          I sort of agree with it but it won't take you from say page 2 to 1 but yes, it may push you up a bit.
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          • Profile picture of the author intelinside
            Originally Posted by askloz View Post

            hehee, want a bet? that all depends on the phrase you're aiming for, but most easy ones that land you on page 2 off the bat, will push you to 1st page
            Lets have one

            But as you said it is not a 'generic' formula to work for everyone but rather depends on the phrase. I look for generic ways rather than going for a bottleneck solution .

            Further, you can't get to page 1 with just removing www, you need to work on your on-page and off-page optimization as well.

            Give it a try with your site, seo-websitebuilderpro.com and remove www from it and then see if it makes any difference to your results for keyword 'seo'.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Adams
    What ever you do choose www. or no www. and keep it consistent to avoid canonicalization*

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  • Profile picture of the author scene4u
    It will have a major effect on the site from an SEO point of view but might make the difference between a #1 and a #2 listings. Plus, more and more sites are choosing to not have a www. domain name.
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    • Profile picture of the author imventures
      Originally Posted by scene4u View Post

      It will have a major effect on the site from an SEO point of view but might make the difference between a #1 and a #2 listings. Plus, more and more sites are choosing to not have a www domain name.
      Actually I found a few government sites that need the w3, otherwise you get server not found.
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