http://www.mysite.com OR http://mysite.com

I'm about to get busy promoting a site. I never understood a few things about www.

1) I'm actually am going to use the www format on anchor tags from other sites because my site's menu uses the www format. I don't think it makes a difference though, but I decided it's better to be consistant; does it make a difference?
2) I have a couple inbound links from other sites that did not use the www. I intend to specify the use of www in the future, but does it really make a difference? I mean, hypothetically speaking, what if half the inbound anchor tags used the www and the other half did not. I imagine Google's algorithm has no problem figuring out it's the same site, but then again, 'why take chances?'

I have a feeling this has been asked before, but I've been out of the SEO loop for a while. Suggestions appreciated.

Thanks.

 

it is a common mistake generally many webmasters do. As per search engines site with small difference is a big thing for them.
So http://yoursit.com is different and http://www.yoursite.com is different, as per google these two site are different web sites and the site weight age is also splits.
So its better to make it http://www.yoursite.com

 

Thanks raghufme. Appreciate the tip.

 

I also 301 redirect all the traffic from mysite.com/... to www.mysite.com/... to avoid having duplicate sites but still allowing access without www prefix.

 

nice tip touster.

 

Thank you for the information it is really help full

 

Absolutely right. And redirecting is the easiest way to get correct backlinks. Our visitors will share only one variant all the times.

 

Use redirection which will tell Google crawler that both are same sites. But i think you should make it http://yoursite.com instead of http://www.yoursite.com. You can see most of the top sites use http://yoursite.com.For eg Mashable, Giga Om,life hacker etc.

 

My random sample was google, youtube, and facebook. They all use www.

decisions, decisions... hmmm

 

So why you enter http://google.com it sends you to www.google.com ?
I think you should make it reverse , http:// -> http://www.

 

With www it's better to the google and yahoo.

 

I went with www.

 

I didnt think it mattered one way or the other too much as long as you just stick with one in your link building and preferences under google webmaster tools

 

It makes no difference, but some seo specialists say that it's better to use a 301 redirect so, it would load as either with www or without.
I prefer having www in the front.

 

Regarding the 301 redirect, I added this to my .htaccess file:

# Redirect non-www to www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mysite.com/$1 [R=301,L] 

Code (markup):

It seems to work fine; hopefully Google's spiders get it too.
If any SEO experts want to chime in if I screwed up, then please let me know. Otherwise, it's posted here for learning purposes.

Regards,
RogerDodger

 

thank's it very help me....