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#1 2007-09-20 08:29:51
- candyman
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URL: with or without www?
I’m going to open a new blog and, knowing it’s now or never, I’m choosing between a with or without www URL. I’ve read, obviously, different opinions but what I mean is the Google-parameter: is better indexed an old style address (with www) or a ne age one (without)?
Why did you have choose a way or the other? I’m interested in TxP addict opinions.
Thanks.
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Re: URL: with or without www?
although i never really bother to implement this on any of my sites, ideally regardless of which you choose to go with, the other should automatically be forced to use the same url. (example being if you typed www.yahoo.com or yahoo.com, the url you always end up at is www.yahoo.com. or vice versa).
if you don’t do this, apparently some search sites may index your domain.com as a different site than your www.domain.com and you are overall penalized as a result. so basically as long as you’re consistent i dont think it really matters.
Last edited by iblastoff (2007-09-20 10:08:54)
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Re: URL: with or without www?
- it’s shorter
- it’s faster (requires less DNS traffic to resolve)
- people nowadays know what an URI is, so they don’t need to see ‘www’ to recognize it.
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#4 2007-09-20 10:37:04
- candyman
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Re: URL: with or without www?
I agree with you, but it seems that my provider (on Linux Apache) can’t accept this:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]
‘cause my site, is on a server with MANY others that have the www as default.
Question: what are the parameter that may I control to correctly set up Textpattern without www (excluded the Administration => Preferences => Site URL)?
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