www. or not??

[DEViANCE]

i have over 900 pointing to the non-www version, and only about 40 to the www. version.

DEViANCE Reviewed by DEViANCE on 6th Nov 2009. www. or not?? What is better for SEO? www.mysite.com or mysite.com ?? Rating: 5

[litewarez]

Such a simple answer... all you goto do is visit a few major sites without the www. and see how many redirect you to the www.

http://google.co.uk/ -> http://www.google.co.uk/
http://youtube.com/ -> http://www.youtube.com/

but then again regardless of seo i will always remove www. for user simplicity and removing problems with subdomains etc when using a Subdomain as a CDN

[DEViANCE]

Ok so your saying i should totally force the www. ?? But then you say that you don't...? If i did how will this affect my alre3ady indexed pages and inbound links without www. ??

[pikeypete]

Use www then just set a redirect in your .htaccess for your previous listings.




Pikeypete

[Hyperz]

If it does make a difference SEO-wise I think the impact is so small that it can be ignored. I do think it is a good idea to force your traffic on 1 of the 2. In my case it works both with and without www, but all incoming traffic is forced to the non-www URL to prevent search engines from seeing it as 2 sites instead of 1. The reason I went without www is because it is, well, shorter . People are lazy, the closer at hand something is the better.

Edit: wtf, apparently my www. url went on a vacation

Edit 2: ignore people who say use www. without providing valid arguments why, either 1 of the 2 is good, 2 at the same time is bad.

[Daniel]

Use www.

[Exel]

I don't use 'www.' never have.

[kenshin]

use any one of them...personally i think site url without www looks more neat....

[punky]

no www. !!!

[Ak47]

Without www.