[BNM] [Fwd: www or no www]

[Paul Silver]

There shouldn't be any search engine problem with having both www. and
no www these days. However, it's best to redirect the one you don't want
to use to the address you do want to use to encourage all the links you
attract to use the same address and not spread between the two, just to
be safe.

Personally, I type 'www.' automatically, so I need the redirecting if
you don't use it :-) Also there are still plenty of e-mail programmes
out there that don't automatically link addresses without www. at the
start unless they've got http:// at the start instead. I find that looks
horrible, so tend to use www. when I reference sites in e-mails.

Cheers

Paul

On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:52:23 +0100, "delarge" <delargerock at gmail.com>
said:
> yeah - I always knock the www. out - it's cumbersome and quite pointless
> 
> Isn't there some influence on search engine ranking as well?
> If you have www. AND no www. - isn't it counted a 2 sites/duplicate
> content?
> 
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> 
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> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Antony Jones
> <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk>wrote:
> 
> > I think there is a general consensus that having www is pointless
> >
> > http://no-www.org/
> >
> > I think it's quite attractive, but I agree with no-www. It's redundant.
> >
> > Ant
> >
> > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 11:45 +0100, Mat Walker wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > -------- Original Message --------
> > > Subject:      www or no www
> > > Date:         Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:54:49 +0100
> > > From:         Beth Granter <bethgranter at yahoo.co.uk>
> > > Reply-To:     beth at bethgranter.com
> > > To:   bnmlist-owner at brightonnewmedia.org
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi Everyone,
> > >
> > > My new workplace's website doesn't work without the www
> > > (http://www.twentyfirst.com <http://www.twentyfirst.com/> works,
> > > http://twentyfirst.com <http://twentyfirst.com/> doesn't) and I've been
> > > put in charge of managing a rebuild of the site... so this is something
> > > I'd like to change. Our IT team have told me that it is bad practice to
> > > not use the www, and because we host the site ourselves and the domain
> > > without the www is used for our mailserver (or something - there was
> > > some techy reason that apparently we cannot make it work, which I didn't
> > > totally get). So if anyone could give me their vote on whether it is
> > > good or bad practice to have no www in your URL functioning and why, it
> > > would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Beth
> > > http://bethgranter.com <http://bethgranter.com/> (no www necessary
> > there!)
> > >
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