www and non-www link question

hello, so i know that www and non www links to your site can make a difference. I have about 600 backlinks to my site if i search for site:www.mysite.com in yahoo. If i search for site:mysite.com i have about 1100 backlinks. What does this mean? should i change my site to redirect to mysite.com or what? will i get listed higher in the serps if i chang my preferred domain to mysite.com in the sitemap area? thanks

 

Use a 301 redirect(only) to redirect from http:// to www.

 

Exactly. There are a million articles/tutorials on how to do this.
I do it with most of my sites. Never had any problems

 

If you are having more number of backlinks & search engine ranking on mysite.com then you should redirect www.mysite.com to mysite.com using 301 rediection.

 

Hi,
G sees your website with the 'www' (http://www.example.com) as a different page the without (http://example.com). Pages that link to the page without the 'www' are hurting your pages with the 'www' as the PR is essentially being split between the two pages. Fortunately this is easy to fix. Use a 301 redirect to redirect Google, and everyone else, to the 'www' page from the non 'www' page.

 

how to redirect? Do it in google sitemap?

 

I'm not sure, but I think you can redirect using cpanel or .htaccess

 

Yes, use .htaccess redirecting.

 

you can redirect from your IIS or use your .htaccess file if you are using PHP.

A good tutorial : http://www.highposition.net/301redirect.html

 

i know about the redirection. i have it one my site now. i was just wondering if i will get a better ranking redirecting it to the http://mysite.com since there is more backlinks.

 

using .htaccess file to do this is best way

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.\.net [nc]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yoursite.net/$1 [R=301,L]

if you add the code above, your problem will be solved