http:// vs http://www

I 301 redirect http:// to http://www for SEO reasons, but this seems to have a negative effect on weight. Google's site command has more indexed pages without www. This is a site command bug. COOP uses the Google API to calculate weight, thus the weight hit.

Shawn, is there anything I can do about this? Besides remove the redirects and use http:// in the coop options?

 

No, since you are doing a redirect the coop validator looks for the redirected pages.

 

Not sure what you mean. But it will not validate without the www set in the url in the coop control panel.

 

If you are redirecting none www to www then the coop will only work on the www

 

i have a similar situation, only my homepage uses http://www.mazoo.co.uk all my other page use http://www.mazoo.co.uk/art etc as my site is based around oscommerce, i have set my account up without the www. and it have validated witout a problem and it gives me more weight than if i use www. from a seo point whats the difference? i have setup my google sitemap etc all without the www. am i doing something wrong should i get my site altered somehow?

Regards.

Kathryn.

http://www.mazoo.co.uk

 

Just redirect http://www to http:// on your whole site.

 

r u crazy ??????????????

 

This thread is 6 months old

 

I found that using none of them work domainname.com works ok.

 

I saw a rather large change when I changed one of my sites to http://site vs. http://www.site. There were more non canonical names in the search engine, but at least I was no longer splitting rank

 

Domain name not a problem. Just setup your website in google webmaster tool.