www or without www ?

Hi,

As newbie, I have question about using www or without.
My web can be access by www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com which is refer to the same page. I've heard that it could be consider as duplicate content. Is true or not? What should I do with that www or without? Any suggestion?
Could someone help me please? Thanks

 

Dup. content: True

Choose one - doesn't matter which, really. Depends on your brand, what you want from it, etc.

And 301-redirect any url of the other to the one you chose. If you choose www, then if the user types digg.com you send him to www.digg.com for instance.

I'd go for the shortest version. www is a bit redundant these days, nobody says http:// anymore, why shouldn't www go the same way?

 

Hi jmafonseca,

Thanks for your info. Anyway how can I 301-redirect URL like your suggestion?

 

my opinion is that when you type your domain without 'www', there is a 301 redirection on it. I don't type the 'www' either when I'm visiting sites but still I land on the page that I expect to be landed.

if your in doubt about it, better check the site if it is a duplicate content, I'm sure you will observe some differences.

 

that's what I thought, too..there is no way that it is automatically considered duplicate content.

 

Hi,
So does it means that my site is ok? or should I have any change?
Sorry mate, I'm totally newbie here ..

 

I prefer non-www version

I dont 301 redirect sites to non-www versions, but I promote sites with the non-www url

http://no-www.org

 

I don't believe you will have any duplicate content problems if you decide to allow both versions of your domain, but I always go without the w's and set up a redirect as others have recommended.

I don't say the w's when telling people my domain name and I find it silly when people waste radio advertising time saying www.

With a redirect in place, even people who insist on typing the w's still end up at my url and my PR doesn't get split up by people linking to two different versions of my domain.

 

I prefer the domain name with www. Use it on all of my sites.

Also, make sure you sign up and verify your site with google webmaster tools. Then specifiy which one you decide to pick inside that section.

 

you can use what you want but both must point to the same.

i also suggest you to choose one from webmaster tools panel

 

Thank you mate !
your info really help me

 

I like www version beacuse www will automatucally become hyperlink.
for example:

Someone tell url

adulu.com
www.adulu.com

PHP:

become

adulu.com
www.adulu.com --> forum generate hyperlink

 

I must say, I find it difficult to believe that you'd run into duplicate content issues because you used the www subdomain and the straight domain name for anything.

That's the DEFAULT way that sites are created now. In fact it's not very often you see people bother with redirects like this. As intelligent as google's bots are I think something this generic would be ludicrous to force penalties.

Furthermore I think google knows when a page is the same and accessed by different URLS. For instance, on my news site there are two ways to access every story. One is by the title name, and the other is by date eg:

www.domain.com/this_is_my_story_title

And

www.domain.com/c1/2007/26/09/

same page. (c1 just means category 1)

I've never had a problem with duplicate data and this means there are 3 different URLs that will pull the same exact page.

 

I did some research on this today, it actually *is* beneficial to select www or non-www in Google Webmaster. All it does is merges your website info from both styles. Without it, the domains are considered separate in a way, in terms of tracking data. Wish I had done it sooner...

 

It may be beneficial to you to get a history on the www subdomain.

Link: http://zacgarrett.com/permalink/remove_the_www.html

I'm in total agreeance with this article - the www is just redundant and useless now.

 

I'd go for the one that already has the most backlinks. If you have more links to your site that has the www in it, then go for that (and vice versa).

 

If I were you i will take both of them, cozz you do not people like which one?

 

No offense, but is that supposed to be a meaningful sentence?

 

Yep, using www for a domain is like a making it a subdomain

 

It's not 'like' making it a subdomain, it is a subdomain.

The whole premise to the 'www' was in the early days, companies would put their internal network on the domain. but it wasn't accessible to the web. So they used a 'www' or 'world wide web' to expose a subdomain to the internet.

ANYTHING that prefixes the domain is a subdomain