WWW or not-WWW

[foke]

Hi...
Is there any difference between using your site's url with or without "www" in your backlinks?

Thanks!

 

[bailey.rein]

I guess there is a big difference because there is one time that I submitted my blog site to many directories without www on the urlthen after one month I tried checking it if the google cached my site... when I type my blog site with www the google cannot see my site but when I search my blog without www the google cached my blog website.

 

[adamblan]

Yes- there is a difference, but as long as you use a 303 redirect (from non-www -> www or vice versa) you'll be fine

 

[Bronzy]

Yes or no both!!
Now SE's consider WWW & without www are different, It was not any different before, so good practice is use 301 redirect for all SE. for only Google you can use Google Webmaster Central.

 

[ahk2chan]

In Google Webmaster tool, you can specify which one you prefer, either the one with www or the one without www. Dashboard -> Settings -> Preferred domain.

 

[mrandrei]

From an SEO perspective, they are different. I suggest you use a site redirect.

 

[conor]

I personally do not use www, but for most of my clients I do because they all request it!

There is a good reason for it though. If you are writing a link parsing engine then it is much easier if all the links have www before them since not many people write their websites with the http:// prefix

 

[yelleyster]

From an SEO perspective, they are different. I suggest you use a site redirect.

Exactly, i'm glad that you reminded them.

A lot of people overlook small details like that then wonder why its tripping them up later when it comes to PR

 

[superaff]

Yes, they are different. Some sites do not get indexed by major SE's because of lacking WWW's, while others are ok. But be sure to add WWW if I were you.

 

[rankb]

google don't show all the backlinks, use yahoo

 

[walkingbird]

focus on one and re-dicrect to the other with a 301 re-dicrect