Which is a better web address - http://www.yourdomain.com/.....

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by webrookie, Sep 14, 2009.

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    Which is a better web address - http://www.chemtopper.com/
    or http://chemtopper.com/.
    I ask this as some of my pages point to one and the balance to other. One of the SEO page assessors have reported that I should set up a 301 redirect.
    So whom should I redirect to so as to achieve best results.
     
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    COBSolutions Well-Known Member

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    WallaceYeung Notable Member

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    IMO it's the same no difference,
    but make sure you use 301 redirect one of these two.
     
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    AffiliatePrincess Peon

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    There is no difference from a ranking perspective. However, every page on your site should have a single URL for referencing it - called the canonical (preferred) URL. The key is to pick one version of your URL as your canonical URL and 301 redirect all non-canonical URLs to the canonical version.

    You obviously have URL Canonicalization issues if you're seeing both the www and non-www versions of URLs showing up in the search engines. You want to fix this using 301 redirects because it leads to issues with duplicate content and split page rank/link juice.
     
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    There are not either one is good or bad.

    You can select any one of it and 301 redirect the other one.
     
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