www in Urls

I have been doing some link building
I have just noticed my sites urls have no www after http://
But if I put the www. I still get to the same page
Any ideas anyone

 

Anyone can feel free to correct me, but provided the domain has been set up accordingly, on an Apache web server both http://www. and www. are configured to resolve to the same user account by default. For consistency, it's probably best you choose one and force all traffic to that host. For example, if you are running an Apache web server, you're able to force all traffic to www. by placing the following block of code in an .htaccess file in your document root:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domain\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Code (markup):

 

They will both get you to your site. When building your links though, choose one or the other format and stick to it because Google doesn't combine the link count. They treat the two as 2 different url's even though both addresses go to the same place.

 

I nearlly got heart attack then, just looked at my site to see that when I hit an internal page, http://masterclean I didnt have the www and i have been doing my link building to www.masterclean
Do you think this will be okay then

 

I have this experience a few months ago.

My blog was without www. and then i changed with www.

From my own experience, this is what has happened after i changed.

I lost my traffic almost 90%..because it seems Google treat my non www links differently ( not sure though)..

But it was updated fast, because i frequently comment in dofollow blogs..

 

How would I change it if I wanted to
To www

 

You many have redirect your www version to non www version url. It is good to avoid duplicate content issue.
Check this & make sure it is 301 redirect.
If this is the issue, then no need to worry.

 

How is that actually done?
Vernon

 

If you know about oyur hosting, then just search in Google for it & you can get lots of article on it.

 

Will lock it all up, thanks
Also you signature links are not active or broken

 

Hi, My signature links are active, but IP of few country is banned, thats may be the reason that you are not able to open that links

 

We are Uk based so you should not be banned

 

you definitely want to do a "canonical" redirect so that all your traffic goes to either www or non-www pages..that way google will not split your links between two urls.... in wordpress, you can do this with the redirection plugin. otherwise, on apache platforms you can put some code into your .htaccess file (search on google for exact code)

 

This is really important information; thanks for pointing this out. I have had at first www URLs and later my URLs where without the www. I actually liked the URLs without the www and left them as they were. However, this didn't really affect my traffic because when I still www in my URLs the traffic was so low that it was almost non-existent.