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| Platinum Lifetime Member Last Online: 11-16-2009 07:26 PM iTrader: (3) Join Date: Mar 2003
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DNF$: 0 Location: outside Boston | optimization with www or no www I had a question on the www vs. no www in a domain name. As an example, I'd like to use craigslist.org. Each of their webpages seems to not use the www: http://atlanta.craigslist.org/, http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/, etc. If someone links to their site using www instead of no www, would this link be useless? What does everyone recommend? The reason I ask is that I have a new site that is similar to craigslist where there's a seperate page for a different location. The way the site was built was without the www on each page. Beantown |
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Country: | use one common link format. i always opt to use the www version and 301 redirect the non www version to www using .htaccess so you don't lose link juice.
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DNF$: 0 Location: outside Boston | So if someone links to my site with www.example.com and my site is at example.com, would this link not help me? |
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Country: | As long as you 301 redirect one version to the other it doesn't matter which one people link to. The 301 redirect will pass the link juice. Here is some sample code for the .htaccess fule -- change example.com to your domain name: The following code will redirect example.com to the www version: Code: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]
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| DNF Member Last Online: 11-15-2009 12:45 PM iTrader: (23) Join Date: May 2005
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DNF$: 38 Location: USA | I like the NO www myself,but as posted its more of a personal pref thing. I like the NO www myself, but as posted its more of a personal pref thing.
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If I'm doing SEO on an already well-indexed site, I search Google for some queries that I know will return the site. Google will let you know how it has already indexed the domain. You can also use the site: query to find out. Then I redirect to the version that Google has already chosen.
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DNF$: 112 Location: England, UK
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DNF$: 165 Location: Dallas | >I always use the www version and use htaccess to redirect http:// --> www version. Generally speaking, it doesn't matter what subdomain you use (www is a subdomain) or whether you use one or not. The biggest issue is the duplicate content issues you run into when allowing a search engine spider to crawl both the www version and the non-www version of your site. Whatever you do, be consistent, especially on your site's internal linking and requesting links from other sites.
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| DNF Member Last Online: 11-07-2008 09:44 PM iTrader: (0) Join Date: Oct 2004
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DNF$: 4,680 Location: NJ | find the one that has the most in comming links to it and use that. redirects "solve" the problem, but you never know what the SE's will disallow next, so don't create a problem just to solve it. Steve |
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