http://mydomain.com or http://www.mydomain.com Either one will show my home page but should I redirect one to the other? I have heard that PR link juice can be spread out between the two and therefore should be redirected. How does one go about redirection? Please explain the process if you know. Thanks!
with www is correct.. since most internet user know about website with www, and you should use permanent redirection on one version so backlinks are going on just one direction..
1. add both versions of your website to google webmaster tools and choose one, which have more indexed pages 2. specify preferred domain in webmaster tools settings 3. make 301 redirect from one version to another through .htaccess after that Google will interpret both versions (with www and without) as one site, and all backlinks will affect to entire website. So it will help to avoid link juice spreading between two.
because I'm very new to this forum, I'm unable to give you the redirect code here. let me know your personal email id I can send over there. -Ishu
Actually both are correct but the one wit www is a more formal site. When you implemented the redirection for your chosen one, most juices will be straight to it.
Both versions are correct, only that "www" one is usually used by most of users. To redirect from non-www to www version you can use the following code placed in .htaccess file: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} . RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.com RewriteRule (.*) http://www.mydomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
Better pick url with www or without then redirect the url to your choice. It doesn't matter whether you redirect the without www to www or vice-versa.
it depends,it's like 2 different sites,but u should try redirecting and post a comment and tell us if you're ok now