What is the best practice?

[surya]

what is the best practice

www.domain.com or
http://domain.com or
http://www.domain.com

to give for backlinks??

[Breakaway11]

It depends how your site is setup.....

www.domain.com is not a good way...

Be sure to either forward your www. to your non-www.
or forward your non-www. to your www.
Look up "301 redirects " on google for how to do this.

When link building, use http:// in your links, and use whichever one your site uses.

Here's a writeup about it....
http://courtneytuttle.com/2007/07/27/www-vs-non-www/

[surya]

i read the post..
but was a little confusing.. thanks anyway :)

[jessecooper]

From my experience it doesn't make a huge difference, but there are guys that will tell you it does...

Pretty much just choose one variation and stick with it, either http://www.site. or http://site.

Then just build the links to which ever you choose and use a redirect so when people link to the one you didn't choose it gets forwarded to the one you did... http://www.google.com/search?q=htaccess+redirect+301

[farrhad]

The last one.

[surya]

From my experience it doesn't make a huge difference, but there are guys that will tell you it does...

Pretty much just choose one variation and stick with it, either http://www.site. or http://site.

Then just build the links to which ever you choose and use a redirect so when people link to the one you didn't choose it gets forwarded to the one you did... http://www.google.com/search?q=htaccess+redirect+301

now thats fine:D

[zexy]

http://www.domain.com/ is the best practice :)

[rirara]

http://www.domain.com/ is the best practice :)

Why?
Just curious.

[findklik]

They are the same, make sure you use only one version when building link or you may use google webmaster tools to claim your prefer version.

[daking89]

Really? I always thought the shorter/simpler domain style would be easier to remember