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I've started to see some best-practice-if-you-ignore-user-expectation guides out there which say that allowing the domain to ignore the www is Not A Good Idea.
by estel 16y ago
I've started to see some best-practice-if-you-ignore-user-expectation guides out there which say that allowing the domain to ignore the www is Not A Good Idea. I don't really know why this is the case, though.
- eli 16y agoI've seen people worry that if incoming links are split between foo.com and www.foo.com, it will affect Google's ranking of your site. I don't think this is true and, anyway, the right solution would be to redirect one to the other.
- alanh 16y agoBest practices concerning www, including rel="canonical" and redirects: http://alanhogan.com/no-www http://alanhogan.com/no-www
- mike-cardwell 16y agoGoogle treats http://www.example.com/foo.html http://www.example.com/foo.html as a different page to http://example.com/foo.html http://example.com/foo.html and it is completely right to do so because they could be different pages. You can use rel="canonical" to get around this, or a http redirect.