[BNM] WWW Why bother?

[Chris Billett]

Maybe from a social/user point of view, as thinks like iextranets become
more popular and sit in iextranet.yourdomain.com, the www.yourdomain.com
becomes more useful as a 'this is where the plain old homepage sits' given?

On 27/05/2008 12:28, "Paul Silver" wrote:

> On Tue, 27 May 2008 12:09:38 +0100, "paul perrin" <paul at idltd.com> said:
>> What is considered best practice on the 'www' subdomain prefix?
>> 
>> Both independently point to the same place? make one a redirect to the
>> other? does it matter (particularly for SEO)?
> 
> I still like the option of putting 'www' at the start (more mail clients
> automatically link that than just a domain name, plus I'm old school and
> tend to type it automatically) so if you're just using the domain name,
> setting up a forward is sensible and keeps people linking to the one you
> want.
> 
> It doesn't really matter for SEO if the sites are identical. However,
> you can get Google to show the one you prefer in the search results by
> registering the site in Google Webmaster Tools and chosing a preference.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Paul