Hi guys, I recently read on SEOBOOK that we should have a www with out domain, that is www.yourdomain.com is better then yourdomain.com. but after reading this thread I am little confused. Here the guy (admin of ASO i guess) says that www is deprecated http://forums.asmallorange.com/index.php?showtopic=3752&hl=deprecated can anyone clean this up. Thanks in advance! Jack ps: I am already confused so would like opinion from some one experienced only. No offence intended to others
I can't say one way or the other, though I still prefer domains with www. Google Sitemaps now let you pick which one you prefer. Cryo.
It really does'nt matter. Just make sure that you are consistent with you link structure make sure all links point to which ever one you chose to go with. But if you have alot links pointing to both then you need to a 301 redirect to tell the spiders to redirect all links to either www or without. I perfer www only because that is the original format, but like I said it does not matter either one can rank just as good as the other.
I redirect from the non-www to the www since I figure the majority of net surfers (ie. general public) are used to the whole www.example.com type of address. If the site is aimed at webmasters/techie types, then the non-www is probably fine. As all the Matt Cutlets would have read, he recommends to redirect from one to the other, but doesn't seem to prefer one over the other.
i guess www is the preferred option. I have seen many many sites which redirect non-www to www domain.
Yes you should redirect non www version to www version. Because you have then http://domain.com/file.php and http://www.domain.com/file.php which are pointing to the same file. And ofcourse then you have indexed both version and this could be duplicated content. It the best to choose one version and redirect another to that version which you decided to use.
I was wonder whether google sees www and without-www urls as two different sites and whether does it have a risk of duplicate content penalty.