Hi guys, i was just looking at what page rank my site has when i found that it has a rank of 4 when i put www. in front of it. But with no www. it has no page rank? Why? i know this might be a silly question but im new to this whole page rank thing. also, will it make any difference to what url i should use for links?
because www. is a subdomain to domain.com (technically 2 different sites). I forward all my visitors to www.domain.com from domain.com so they all get the same URL, no matter what (this includes search engines). It doesn't create duplicate content, but this does minimize the confusion for search engines.
well yea the www. is classified as a subdomain of your domain name. How you market your site? with the www. or without?
I use the non www and here is what I put in my .htaccess: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^mydomain\.com RewriteRule ^.*$ http://mydomain.com%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L] This way if someone types in www.mydomain.com it goes to mydomain.com.
Thank you! I can search google as well as the next person but I also found a helpful forum to ask questions at... appreciate the answer. Lisa
Its all done before the page is served so there is no way for them to know and there is no reason to mind even if they did know. Google actually recommend you do this for some of their services. Their mapping API only works for the exact site you regsitered the API key for. If you register mysite.com for example and try to use the maps on www.mysite.com they fail. Google say you should redirect to the correct domain to avoid this.