http:// OR http://www. OR www.

Hi guys,

I've just started link building for my website. I wanted to know what exactly to use for adding link on various sites / forums / signatures / link exchange etc. I mean I want to create max backlinks for SEO purposes, so should I list my site as

http://delhicaravan.com
OR
http://www.delhicaravan.com
OR
www.delhicaravan.com

What is the difference and which one is the best way to do it. (For both with and without anchor text)

Thanks in advance for your time reading this thread. DP Rocks!

 

i've been doing some research on this my self after i found my PR was split across many combinations like you have show.

In a link you have to use http:// as it wont be reconised as an extral path/link and the website will try loading it internaly. www. is nothing more than a subdomain and serves no real purpose and is a bad habit of use for many users.

go with http://yourdomain.com

if you have an index.php, html page etc, dont link to this page. just use "/".

also to prevent anyone from deviating from your formate use the following in a htaccess file.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.yourdomain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index\.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.php$ http://yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L] 

PHP:

 

i have excellent results without www

 

use of http://www is recommended as lot of people on the net still have a concention of seeing a domain name with www. whichever you use, use an uniform URL and stick with it.

 

so long as you setup a 301 perm redirection so any www. links people may use to link to you will be fine not using it.

more info can be found here, and a little debate on the subject. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/canonicalization-seo-should-i-use-www-or-not/6950/

 

Sure it is, tell it to google, they for some reason use www.google.com.

Actually www is the only proper way to address the web pages.

Of course you can use http://domain.com, and sometimes I do , but this is not quite correct.

 

http:// is telling the browser which protocol to use.

www is not a necessary requirement.


There is no difference at all between:

http://delhicaravan.com - delhicaravan.com

If you have a browser that doesn't presume it's http:// then it will just fail to load.

 

i setup a 301 for all things to go to the www & google has synced my pr and such... but

i have noticed a drawback is in google analytics that the content lists as /folder/www...etc instead of just /folder/ ... fyi

 

Stick with http://www. and use HTACCESS files to redirect via 301 http:// traffic to http://www

This will sort everything.

 

I never set up a 301 before. How do you do that? I've also been using www. because I read awhile ago that its better. I guess they were wrong.

 

its not better nor worse.. if your site is brand new you can do whatever you want...

but if its an 'aged' site try and maintain what the bulk of your backlinks are pointing to. in my case everyone links using the www so i did a 301 to www

u can create 301's by modifying the .htaccess file.. make a backup before playing with it obv

 

as designdev says (and as I was going to recommend) just set up a 301 redirect - it wont even matter what the links are formatted as then, because they will all go to the same place.

I run these on my website:

www.northernweb.co.uk
northernweb.co.uk

notice how the www. is automatically pre-pended on?

 

I redirect all the none www ==> www.

 

much prefer http://www ...and use 301 redirect so all links will be counted..

 

You simply use non-www to www htaccess redirect (301 redirect) in your .htaccess file. Then it doesnt matter which one you use for backlinking purpose. That way, even if others backlink to you on their own without you telling them and they choose a different format for linking to you, then you will still be covered.

 

it's better to user delhicaravan.com instead of www.

 

just check non www to www its convert or not

 

I direct it also to www, mostly because it is the "proper" way and clearly says what is the purpose of the domain, to provide world wide web content, which means it should be read by browsers and the other one does not specify its purpose clearly but users can also access me trough my domain since i redirect all to the www one

 

I think with www is better in placing link, so when anyone click on the link, it will straight forward to the site, rather than without, which maybe some people browser don't have presume www on/auto redirect from without www to www.

 

Thanks for all posts. I will redirect all non-www to www on my website. Thanks again.