Linking pages using www or without www ?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by pratik, May 14, 2007.

  1. #1
    hi there,

    I am developing an ASP site... and all of a sudden i came across this question in my mind...

    I have a website www.domain.com and i have other pages like www.domain.com/news.asp & www.domain.com/about.asp etc... so while linking each page to other pages should i link it like "www.domain.com/news.asp" or "domain.com/news.asp" ...

    which do you suggest would be better... :confused:
     
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  2. gandaliter

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    It doesn't matter at all. Technically it is possible to set www.domain.com and domain.com to point to different places using DNS records, because www. is just a subdomain really, but no-one ever does (at least not to my knowledge).
     
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    Personally I would link it as http://www.domain.com/news.asp/ as I think spiders may pick these links up more easily, however I don’t think it really matters to be perfectly honest.
     
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  4. 8everything

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    Also: people are more common with the www in front of the domain (technically: http://www.) so I would stick to that.
     
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    it matterson the PR topic. Google will get confused and can give u a different PR on www.--- and a different on without www.--

    It once happened with me so then i installed a wordpress plugin which redirects without-www to www. in my blog.

    using WWW will be good.
     
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  7. Richie_Ni

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    In your case,use the "www" version.
     
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  8. pratik

    pratik Notable Member

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    Thanks all for the reply...

    well yes i knew that we can have different DNS record for both... but as per you all i guess going with www will be a better option... ;)
     
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  9. unitechy

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    yeah it doesnt matter much.. but stick with www
     
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    I as a site owner would prefer www.
     
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    People have the tendency to use the www when linking to sites, I myself prefer without the WWW but as I realize people do link with www so I redirect the none-www to the www.
     
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    I suggest you use www though it really wouldn't matter much whether to include www or not
     
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