Currently I have a domain that works on both www.domain.com and domain.com. However I want to make it that whenever someone browses to any of the 2 listed above is always redirects to domain.com. In short: My site will always be domain.com I have several thousands (270.000) of backlinks pointing to www.domain.com, will the change to only domain.com affect the backlinks in a negative way (the ones that point to www.domain.com)? Edit: I did a permanent 301 redirect in my .htaccess file and I have also added the canonical link between the headers. Regards, TheBiaatch
No, your backlinks will stay. We did the same about a year ago on a domain with around 40k backlinks and the rankings didn't even drop for a few days - solid same
no it should be fine but www is better for appearance unless your domain spells something with the tld
Your backlinks will stay regardless of what you do to your website. If your backlink has been removed from the website where it was regardless if you haven't done anything to your website, then you've still lost a backlink. You'll be fine, Implementing a 301 permanent redirection is the most appropriate thing you've done however, you may expect some slight changes in your SERP results due to the movement to a new location but not to a point that you'll be worried about.