I have been negotiating with partners in link building and some have explicitly asked me to point to them like this, without using "www":
http://theirsite.com
Why?
When checking my clients' sites, I noticed that http://clientsite.com has no PR, while with "www" they often have pretty good PR, 5-6, 7+...
What is good/bad about "www" or "no www"?
Should I start a campaign for the "no www" version in order to increase that ranking as well?
Need your opinion on this for both technical and SEO reasons moved to SEO Forum When starting out, as far as I know, www or without doesn't matter, just PICK one and stick with it by disabling the other form in your .htaccess otherwise, www and the non will create duplicate content and you'll get smacked with Google's recent changes. Hmm, I was unaware of the "recent changes" by Google...
Where can I read about them?
And what exactly should I modify in my .htaccess? I would like to block the http:// without www.
Thank you for helping, friend It's not the recent changes....ok, lemme explain this this way. Google, as we all know, has always viewed http://www.yourdomain.com as one site, and http://yourdomain.com as a two ways of looking at the same domain, but for whatever reason, sees double because of this situation if people do not limit their access through other means like .htaccess. Before, it wasn't as much of an issue, but with the most recent algorithm change, check the official google blog for exact date, it hits dual content potentially hard. If you run a blog, without canonical tag plugins, depending on your taxonomies, you can face 2, 3, 4, or more copies of the same pages all over your blog system, especially WordPress installs.
Maybe this explains it a bit better, maybe I fell short. But basically, it's more to do with the duplicate content tweaks than the others. Again, that was roughly, what, a month ago or so? Can't remember exactly off the top of my head, the official blog is there. One or the other doesn't matter, as long as you pick one, stick with it, to cut out at least one set of duplicate site content. Thank you for explaining it to me. Now it is more clear why my clients have ranking issues: they all have this "duplicate" appearance.
OK, then what do I have to adjust, type in to my .htaccess file? Quote: RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomainhere.org
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomainhere.org/$1 [R=301,L] Make sure first line is there already so rewrite engine is on. Make sure the last line is the last line in your .htaccess because I think that R=301,L tends to tell the server it is the last line of the file, or something like that. I can't remember the specifics, just make sure rewrite is on, if not already, use the rewrite line, then make the last 2 lines above the last 2 lines in your .htaccess and it should work.
Sorry, been a long night, a bit fried and tired.
EDIT
In basics, all that does is redirect to the www equivalent all the time. They'll never get the http://yourdomain.org, it will always be http://www.yourdomain.org Google has a good handle on this now. Not so much in the past, but they are much better now.
Trouble is you point all the links at www version and will sometimes find Bing or Yahoo displaying the non-www version. So, then people find that version and end up building links to that. It's just better off to not leave it up to chance and redirect one into the other. as a two ways of looking at the same domain, but for whatever reason, sees double because of this situation if people do not limit their access through other means like .htaccess. Before, it wasn't as much of an issue, but with the most recent algorithm change, check the official google blog for exact date, it hits dual content potentially hard. If you run a blog, without canonical tag plugins, depending on your taxonomies, you can face 2, 3, 4, or more copies of the same pages all over your blog system, especially WordPress installs.
http://theirsite.com
Why?
When checking my clients' sites, I noticed that http://clientsite.com has no PR, while with "www" they often have pretty good PR, 5-6, 7+...
What is good/bad about "www" or "no www"?
Should I start a campaign for the "no www" version in order to increase that ranking as well?
Need your opinion on this for both technical and SEO reasons moved to SEO Forum When starting out, as far as I know, www or without doesn't matter, just PICK one and stick with it by disabling the other form in your .htaccess otherwise, www and the non will create duplicate content and you'll get smacked with Google's recent changes. Hmm, I was unaware of the "recent changes" by Google...
Where can I read about them?
And what exactly should I modify in my .htaccess? I would like to block the http:// without www.
Thank you for helping, friend It's not the recent changes....ok, lemme explain this this way. Google, as we all know, has always viewed http://www.yourdomain.com as one site, and http://yourdomain.com as a two ways of looking at the same domain, but for whatever reason, sees double because of this situation if people do not limit their access through other means like .htaccess. Before, it wasn't as much of an issue, but with the most recent algorithm change, check the official google blog for exact date, it hits dual content potentially hard. If you run a blog, without canonical tag plugins, depending on your taxonomies, you can face 2, 3, 4, or more copies of the same pages all over your blog system, especially WordPress installs.
Maybe this explains it a bit better, maybe I fell short. But basically, it's more to do with the duplicate content tweaks than the others. Again, that was roughly, what, a month ago or so? Can't remember exactly off the top of my head, the official blog is there. One or the other doesn't matter, as long as you pick one, stick with it, to cut out at least one set of duplicate site content. Thank you for explaining it to me. Now it is more clear why my clients have ranking issues: they all have this "duplicate" appearance.
OK, then what do I have to adjust, type in to my .htaccess file? Quote: RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomainhere.org
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.yourdomainhere.org/$1 [R=301,L] Make sure first line is there already so rewrite engine is on. Make sure the last line is the last line in your .htaccess because I think that R=301,L tends to tell the server it is the last line of the file, or something like that. I can't remember the specifics, just make sure rewrite is on, if not already, use the rewrite line, then make the last 2 lines above the last 2 lines in your .htaccess and it should work.
Sorry, been a long night, a bit fried and tired.
EDIT
In basics, all that does is redirect to the www equivalent all the time. They'll never get the http://yourdomain.org, it will always be http://www.yourdomain.org Google has a good handle on this now. Not so much in the past, but they are much better now.
Trouble is you point all the links at www version and will sometimes find Bing or Yahoo displaying the non-www version. So, then people find that version and end up building links to that. It's just better off to not leave it up to chance and redirect one into the other. as a two ways of looking at the same domain, but for whatever reason, sees double because of this situation if people do not limit their access through other means like .htaccess. Before, it wasn't as much of an issue, but with the most recent algorithm change, check the official google blog for exact date, it hits dual content potentially hard. If you run a blog, without canonical tag plugins, depending on your taxonomies, you can face 2, 3, 4, or more copies of the same pages all over your blog system, especially WordPress installs.