Comments on: WWW or No WWW: Which is Better for SEO? http://www.canonicalseo.com/www-or-no-www/ Learn SEO Free Online Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:15:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ruslan http://www.canonicalseo.com/www-or-no-www/comment-page-1/#comment-280 Ruslan Thu, 18 Feb 2010 08:53:24 +0000 http://www.canonicalseo.com/?p=452#comment-280 Very useful information. I’ve recently released a new web site and I’m struggling with ranking. I’ve read a few other posts about canonicalization but this one is easier to understand. Thanks for sharing. Very useful information. I’ve recently released a new web site and I’m struggling with ranking. I’ve read a few other posts about canonicalization but this one is easier to understand. Thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Rick http://www.canonicalseo.com/www-or-no-www/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Rick Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:58:21 +0000 http://www.canonicalseo.com/?p=452#comment-269 I agree with you. I also prefer to choose the www just for the fact that our visitors and the general public expect to see it. Especially true in print. It is very rare to see a domain being listed in print such as magazines and books without the www. You could even say media has somewhat programmed us to expect it. Even today when we type in a web address without the www we expect to see the www appended to the URL. But it all comes down to choosing one or the other and sticking to it. If you choose one over the other it is always a good idea to 301 redirect. Just for the simple fact you can not control how other sites link to you. They may choose to use the opposite of what you have chosen. Just helps to reduce the chance of duplicate content and beats a split page rank/link juice issues. Thumbs up on this very informative post. I agree with you. I also prefer to choose the www just for the fact that our visitors and the general public expect to see it. Especially true in print. It is very rare to see a domain being listed in print such as magazines and books without the www.

You could even say media has somewhat programmed us to expect it. Even today when we type in a web address without the www we expect to see the www appended to the URL.

But it all comes down to choosing one or the other and sticking to it. If you choose one over the other it is always a good idea to 301 redirect. Just for the simple fact you can not control how other sites link to you. They may choose to use the opposite of what you have chosen. Just helps to reduce the chance of duplicate content and beats a split page rank/link juice issues.

Thumbs up on this very informative post.

]]> By: Search http://www.canonicalseo.com/www-or-no-www/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Search Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:24:50 +0000 http://www.canonicalseo.com/?p=452#comment-264 Really good information about www or no www site. This information is very useful for me. Really good information about www or no www site. This information is very useful for me.

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]]> By: Martin http://www.canonicalseo.com/www-or-no-www/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Martin Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:34:32 +0000 http://www.canonicalseo.com/?p=452#comment-236 I checked it with Web Sniffer and it is 301 redirecting. Many thanks for your help! I checked it with Web Sniffer and it is 301 redirecting. Many thanks for your help!

]]> By: Canonical SEO http://www.canonicalseo.com/www-or-no-www/comment-page-1/#comment-235 Canonical SEO Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:27:50 +0000 http://www.canonicalseo.com/?p=452#comment-235 As long as you actually are 301 redirecting from the www version of your domain back to the non-www version of your domain then the non-www version of your URLs will get credit for inbound links to the www version of your URLs. <a href="http://www.canonicalseo.com/redirecting-web-pages/" rel="nofollow">301 redirecting web pages</a> like this eliminates the URL canonicalization issues you're worried about. If you're not 100% sure of whether a 301 redirect is actually occuring, there are many tools on the web that will show you the browser/web server interaction including the status codes being returned. You can use the Firebug plugin for Firefox... or you can simply enter a www URL into this <a href="http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp" rel="nofollow">web page based http header tool</a> and it will show you the interaction between the browser/crawler and your web server. As long as you actually are 301 redirecting from the www version of your domain back to the non-www version of your domain then the non-www version of your URLs will get credit for inbound links to the www version of your URLs. 301 redirecting web pages like this eliminates the URL canonicalization issues you’re worried about.

If you’re not 100% sure of whether a 301 redirect is actually occuring, there are many tools on the web that will show you the browser/web server interaction including the status codes being returned. You can use the Firebug plugin for Firefox… or you can simply enter a www URL into this web page based http header tool and it will show you the interaction between the browser/crawler and your web server.

]]> By: Martin http://www.canonicalseo.com/www-or-no-www/comment-page-1/#comment-234 Martin Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:56:08 +0000 http://www.canonicalseo.com/?p=452#comment-234 I have a site on Wordpress MU that defaults to http://mysite.com and I believe www. 301 redirects to this. So if I type in www.mysite.com it reverts to http://mysite.com Anyway, I have done quite a few articles which I linked back to www.mysite.com. I then did some bookmarking which I believe would have just taken the url directly from the page so would have used non www. Will this cause a problem and split my link juice or will the 301 redirect resolve this and it won't matter that I have some links going to www. and some to non www. ??? Thanks. I have a site on WordPress MU that defaults to http://mysite.com and I believe www. 301 redirects to this. So if I type in http://www.mysite.com it reverts to http://mysite.com

Anyway, I have done quite a few articles which I linked back to http://www.mysite.com. I then did some bookmarking which I believe would have just taken the url directly from the page so would have used non www. Will this cause a problem and split my link juice or will the 301 redirect resolve this and it won’t matter that I have some links going to www. and some to non www. ???

Thanks.

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