WWW or No-WWW

[Andy Howells]

Hi all,

What do you guys choose for your URL’s, do you force WWW or force non www via HTAccess.

I usually force WWW but, I’m interested to see what everyone else is doing.

[bwdgroup]

Forced WWW using .htaccess

[Watson90]

@andy_unleash

I prefer to not have the www prefix, it looks nicer on stuff like business cards for example;

http://stevenwatson.co.uk

as opposed to;

http://www.stevenwatson.co.uk

Just my thoughts on the matter.

[Kitty Giraudel]

I hid it with .htaccess. When it comes to URL, the less the better.

[Paulie_D]

@Watson90 Why on earth would you lose the www on a business card and not lose the http:// too?

[Watson90]

@Paulie_D – What would/do you have it laid out like?

[Kitty Giraudel]

In my opinion, either you go for “mywebsite.com” or “www.mywebsite.com”, but specifying the protocol on a communication supports looks like a mistake to me.

[chrisburton]

Non www. I find it humorous when people say “go to www dot mysite dot com”.

[Watson90]

Hmm, fair point, it’s just my personal preference, everyone will have their own opinions I suppose.

[TheDoc]

I *feel* like it’s personal preference, but I recall reading a few articles that have me leaning towards non-WWW… now only if I could find them…

[Historical Forums User]

(apologies but I have to be facetious and not really helping the OP) You could always tell them to type ‘mywebsite’ > ctrl+enter ;)

[dougoftheabaci]

In terms of tech, your site should allow both www and no-www and redirect to your preference. Beyond that… Yeah, doesn’t matter. There’s no SEO benefit one way or the other, just in consistency. There’s no technological reason to have it or not, either.

In terms of pure preference, I go no-www as it’s less typing and looks cleaner when typed out.

Besides, when’s the last time you said, “it’s on http://www.amazon.com” over “amazon.com”?

[chrisburton]

I agree with Josh. I point my www url to my non-www url.

[Paulie_D]

I could be wrong but I hardly think the addition (or lack of) a WWW would affect search rankings but as you say, better not mess with success.

[dougoftheabaci]

@Paulie_D with or without is all the same to Google (they have publicly said as much). What they say is just make sure you’re as consistent as possible and to use the canonical meta attribute to make sure search engines see it as one page, with or without www.

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