Google Index, www.domain.com vs domain.com

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by iMacFlats, Aug 2, 2006.

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    Currently, I don't enforce a www.domain.com or domain.com on my site. As such, I have a large number of indexed material under domain.com, but about 1/6th of that is indexed under www.domain.com. When I do site:domain.com, it shows my main page first... if I do site:www.domain.com, it shows some subpage of my site first and no mention of my main page.

    I am getting ready to do a major implement a major overhaul on my site, lots of mod_rewrite. I already put into place to redirect domain.com to www.domain.com, but wonder if that will be a good thing. Should I error on the side of google index results and redirect everything to domain.com, or should I leave it all alone and don't for force www or non-www for my domain?

    What is Google's take on this?
     
    iMacFlats, Aug 2, 2006 IP
  2. websiteideas

    websiteideas Well-Known Member

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    Personally, I prefer to see domain.com and I would imagine search engines would as well. It just looks cleaner. The shorter the url, the better.
     
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    mjewel Prominent Member

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    It makes absolutely no difference to search engines for ranking purposes, but you certainly pick one and redirect the other because you can have problems with google if you don't. I personally use the "www" on all my sites.
     
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