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Vendot

10-03-2007 11:51 AM

Is It Better To Link Without WWW.

If youre getting links to your site, it better to give your url as:

(1) http://www.domain.com

or

(2) http://domain.com

Anyone have an authoritative answer on this?

As far as i understand it, logically you get the same PR either way but in example 2 you increase the prioritization that google might give to the keyword(s) of your domain because every other domain has www. in it. Maybe thats not the way google looks at it.... any ideas?

WiredGuy

10-03-2007 11:56 AM

Being consistent is better. It makes no difference but once you start with a linking format, stick to it. Having it mixed will likely split up the number of links until Google sees the two sites as the same.
WG

Altheon

10-03-2007 12:29 PM

To add to what WG said. Which ever you choose make sure to 301 redirect to the other to avoid the duplicate content penalty.

Az A Bay Bay

10-03-2007 12:33 PM

whtevR yall think

Vendot

10-03-2007 03:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Altheon (Post 13181712)

To add to what WG said. Which ever you choose make sure to 301 redirect to the other to avoid the duplicate content penalty.

im confused... why would you redirect one to the other?

Porko

10-03-2007 03:14 PM

its the same i think..

directfiesta

10-03-2007 03:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Porko (Post 13182729)

its the same i think..

Yes... and no.

As an example for NO, if you install a SSL on domain.com, but your surfer comes from www.domain.com. it will show as unsecure and coming from a different site....

Flynn

10-03-2007 03:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vendot (Post 13182694)

im confused... why would you redirect one to the other?

because places like yahoo will penalize you for having duplicate content out there.

xsabn

10-03-2007 03:18 PM

Quote:

im confused... why would you redirect one to the other?

add these lines in your .htaccess if you want your http://yourdomain.com to become http://www.yourdomain.com

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks 

RewriteEngine on 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC] 

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

V_RocKs

10-03-2007 03:20 PM

Consistency is the key.

JamesK

10-03-2007 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xsabn (Post 13182762)

add these lines in your .htaccess if you want your http://yourdomain.com to become http://www.yourdomain.com

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks 

RewriteEngine on 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC] 

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Thanks but does that not conflict with subdomains?

xsabn

10-03-2007 03:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JamesK (Post 13182804)

Thanks but does that not conflict with subdomains?

nope

you can even make your http://subdomain.domain.com to redirect on http://www.subdomain.domain.com (if this make you happy :)) or vice versa.

Vick!

10-03-2007 05:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vendot (Post 13182694)

im confused... why would you redirect one to the other?

To make sure the link juice to the one is properly passed to the other one. Its like funneling PR (and other link benefits) of both www. and non-www. version to the one you choose.

StarkReality

10-03-2007 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xsabn (Post 13182762)

add these lines in your .htaccess if you want your http://yourdomain.com to become http://www.yourdomain.com

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks 

RewriteEngine on 

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC] 

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Exactly ! It works the other way round as well. Whatever you do, make sure you have one standard definition for every domain, because getting www.domain.com and domain.com indexed means duplicate content that can easily hurt your rankings. Just one "wrong" link without the code above in your .htaccess could mess with your SE traffic.

I personally prefer the www.domain.com, surfers are used to www, although it is, technically seen, a subdomain of domain.com.

Vendot

10-04-2007 01:20 AM

OK so using this rewrite code, what do i need to do to make sure all my PR goes to domain.com

What is the code i need to put and where does it go?

Vick!

10-05-2007 07:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vendot (Post 13184945)

OK so using this rewrite code, what do i need to do to make sure all my PR goes to domain.com

What is the code i need to put and where does it go?

Are you sure you want all your PR goes to domain.com but not www.domain.com?

If so,

(www to non-www version)

Code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond &#37;{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

If you need reverse of this,

(non-www to www version)

Code:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com

RewriteRule (.*) http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

JamesK

10-05-2007 07:24 AM

Cool thanks a lot guys, finally a thread that's worth being bookmarked :winkwink:

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