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    Andy Howells
    Participant

    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.

    #114715
    bwdgroup
    Member

    Forced WWW using .htaccess

    #114716
    Watson90
    Member

    @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.

    #114727
    Kitty Giraudel
    Participant

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

    #114728
    Paulie_D
    Member

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

    #114730
    Watson90
    Member

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

    #114731
    Kitty Giraudel
    Participant

    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.

    #114732
    chrisburton
    Participant

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

    #114734
    Watson90
    Member

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

    #114763
    TheDoc
    Member

    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…

    #114795

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

    #114819

    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”?

    #114830
    chrisburton
    Participant

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

    #114910
    Paulie_D
    Member

    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.

    #114972

    @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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