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November 19, 2012 at 5:53 am #40870
Andy Howells
ParticipantHi 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.
November 19, 2012 at 6:02 am #114715bwdgroup
MemberForced WWW using .htaccess
November 19, 2012 at 6:04 am #114716Watson90
Member@andy_unleash
I prefer to not have the www prefix, it looks nicer on stuff like business cards for example;
as opposed to;
Just my thoughts on the matter.
November 19, 2012 at 8:03 am #114727Kitty Giraudel
ParticipantI hid it with .htaccess. When it comes to URL, the less the better.
November 19, 2012 at 8:07 am #114728Paulie_D
Member@Watson90 Why on earth would you lose the www on a business card and not lose the http:// too?
November 19, 2012 at 8:59 am #114730November 19, 2012 at 9:02 am #114731Kitty Giraudel
ParticipantIn 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.
November 19, 2012 at 9:19 am #114732chrisburton
ParticipantNon www. I find it humorous when people say “go to www dot mysite dot com”.
November 19, 2012 at 9:36 am #114734Watson90
MemberHmm, fair point, it’s just my personal preference, everyone will have their own opinions I suppose.
November 19, 2012 at 1:21 pm #114763TheDoc
MemberI *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…
November 19, 2012 at 3:31 pm #114795Historical Forums User
Participant(apologies but I have to be facetious and not really helping the OP) You could always tell them to type ‘mywebsite’ > ctrl+enter ;)
November 19, 2012 at 9:01 pm #114819dougoftheabaci
MemberIn 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”?
November 19, 2012 at 10:42 pm #114830chrisburton
ParticipantI agree with Josh. I point my www url to my non-www url.
November 20, 2012 at 10:19 am #114910Paulie_D
MemberI 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.
November 20, 2012 at 5:08 pm #114972dougoftheabaci
Member@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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