Difference between www.domain and http://domain

Now google site maps gives us the option to display our site as www. or . on the google searches.

 

yes, they could be different if your backlinks are pointing to www and some for non www.

i suggest you go to google sitemap and choose the association you need. strong suggestion is dont set any association

 

Hi,


please explain this "strong suggestion is dont set any association"

thanks

 

go to google webmaster Tools:

now under preferred domain: select Don't set an association.

 

Not sure what's the difference, but I have all my sites to use www.

 

i also personally like www. because most of the time i feel, the NS and the website updates quickly on www. rather than the http:// which takes sometimes days or atleast hours after i make changes to my site via FTP.

 

True when I move host, it takes http:// forever to catch up with the update.

 

I got the same experience, but what is the reason behind? any technical problem?

 

you guys need to do a permanent 301 to avoid http:// issues if any

 

please post here again how to put that in .htaccess

and is there any drawback,...... if no drawback, then I just put that to all my sites.................thanks

 

Just paste the code provided above into your .htaccess file (root .htaccess) and you are done..

 

Out out pure convenience and repetition the first thing I do when I'm setting up a site is add the htaccess code to remove the www. automatically (the code that was posted earlier in this thread is the exact same thing I use).

Doing that ensures that you'll get the max "PR Juice" and that your backlinks will all go to one place

 

you mean this: (pls confirm before I do the changes to all my sites)


RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^seo4fun\.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.seo4fun.com/$1 [R=301]

 

When adding this code are we making it so only the http://domain will show up or the www.domian will show up?

I personaly prefer the www infront of it and want to always use that one.

 

hey dont use seo4fun, replace it with your own url lol..gosh dont just copy paste.

 

does this mean, even if i use phpnuke for my site...the htacess method will work??

 

You can let google consider your domain with both "www" and without "www" to be the same.

Go to Webmaster Central and there is a option to change your "Preferred Domain".

 

if someone use both of them
isn’t he will loss page of archaive
cuz the page will archaive 2 time
with www and without it?

 

I just tried adding this code to the htaccess and then tried it.


When I went to http://mydomain.com it took me to http://www.mydomain.com/public_html/

Wow can I fix this so it just goes to the main page and not some internal file folder?

What is the "$1" part in the code for?

 

not much difference your site can run without www but users usually press ctrl+enter so try to use www also