Which URL should I link to?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by GreenDog, Jan 6, 2008.

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  2. sultanofseo

    sultanofseo Notable Member

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    there is no difference. its just that more people are used to www. whichever you use, keep using that one always
     
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    snowbird Notable Member

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    Search engines can treat your domain differently if it is used with and without the www. In Google you set this preference.

    A good policy is to force the www with htaccess. Here's an example...

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
    Code (markup):
    It gives a 301 redirect, so any pagerank from links going to non www url will forward to the www url.

    Hope this helps...
     
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  4. Richie_Ni

    Richie_Ni Illustrious Member

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    No difference.
    Choose one and stick with it.
     
    Richie_Ni, Jan 6, 2008 IP
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    Brandon Sheley Illustrious Member

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    I agree ^

    and check your google webmaster tools, you can tell google that you are using the www. which is the one I suggest..

    It's more common to get linked by a www. domain IMO
     
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    mh0825 Active Member

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    Yeah, the PR will be different. www . domain.com is not the same as domain.com to google PR. like other said, pick one and stick with it... oh ya that HTACCESS trick above looks to be a keeper and I might have a go at it as well :)
     
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    mirror123456 Banned

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    IN my opinion its just the difference of letter "t" onlinedogtrainingbooks.com

    Choose any one of them!
     
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    jenishshah Banned

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    Green Dog,

    From the SEO point of view it will not matter whether you link to

    http://www.onlinedograiningbooks.com

    or

    http://onlinedogtrainingbooks.com

    because there is a 301 redirect which has been done. But yes if you link to 2 different URL's as you have mentioned. I know that you have made a typos error :) then there can be a change as both the URL's are completely different.
     
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    thunderbolt007 Active Member

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    There is a difference.. The two mentioned url are read by SEs as two domain.. So instead you can url redirect for that...If you miss the other one...
     
    thunderbolt007, Jan 7, 2008 IP
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    Nothing Difference between www. or not using www. ... but it ia always depends on cached by google
     
    Sonal, Jan 7, 2008 IP
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    domprofesor Guest

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    edit your htacces to redirect and you will link to both
     
    domprofesor, Jan 8, 2008 IP
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    shonit Well-Known Member

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    for seo, you should use only 1, either one is fine.
     
    shonit, Jan 8, 2008 IP
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    Using Google Webmaster tools, you can set whichever one you like to be registered as your URL in searches. This might fix the problem of having two different PageRanks for the same site.
     
    VestRite, Jan 8, 2008 IP