SEO - www.yourdomain.com versus yourdomain.com
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Hello,
Regarding my Webmaster Tools Site Settings, it was recently set to: Display urls as yourdomain.com - but I've read that this may not be the best setting for SEO purposes. I'm not even sure why the redirect was set up in the first place. Most sites that I search come up with thehttp://www.yourdomain.com - including Google.
I need to increase traffic to my site as I let things go for a while when working on other projects. I'm not feeling comfortable that this url redirect is helpful. Can someone who is knowledgeable about SEO comment please? I have a person who helps me on the back-end of my site - I am not a programmer/designer. I just write and load content, and I have someone else handle anything technical that I don't know how to do.
Hope someone can give me advice. Right now I'm thinking I need to switch everything back tohttp://www.yourdomain.com and leave it at that. (My real website name is below)
Thanks!
Susan
http://www.GeminiUniversal.com
Regarding my Webmaster Tools Site Settings, it was recently set to: Display urls as yourdomain.com - but I've read that this may not be the best setting for SEO purposes. I'm not even sure why the redirect was set up in the first place. Most sites that I search come up with thehttp://www.yourdomain.com - including Google.
I need to increase traffic to my site as I let things go for a while when working on other projects. I'm not feeling comfortable that this url redirect is helpful. Can someone who is knowledgeable about SEO comment please? I have a person who helps me on the back-end of my site - I am not a programmer/designer. I just write and load content, and I have someone else handle anything technical that I don't know how to do.
Hope someone can give me advice. Right now I'm thinking I need to switch everything back tohttp://www.yourdomain.com and leave it at that. (My real website name is below)
Thanks!
Susan
http://www.GeminiUniversal.com
Hello,
I am not sure it has an impact on SEO but it also depends on the size of your site.
Here's an article that explains nicely some technical reasons why big sites should (must?) use www.
I am not sure it has an impact on SEO but it also depends on the size of your site.
Here's an article that explains nicely some technical reasons why big sites should (must?) use www.
Link to article?
Sorry I thought I posted the link. Here it is:http://techwelkin.com/www-vs-non-www-seo-better-technical-differenc...
Like PCL said in his answer to the other post, as far as SEO is concerned it seems to be a matter of preference and consistency. Choose one and stick to it.
The article I'm referring to also points out technical considerations and, if those are important to you, then www is better. Still, he gives the example of at least Twitter using a non-www url quite happily.
Like PCL said in his answer to the other post, as far as SEO is concerned it seems to be a matter of preference and consistency. Choose one and stick to it.
The article I'm referring to also points out technical considerations and, if those are important to you, then www is better. Still, he gives the example of at least Twitter using a non-www url quite happily.
This has already been answered (in a duplicate post) here:
https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/usage/seo-www.yourdomain....
https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/usage/seo-www.yourdomain....
I don't think it matters too much which variant you use, but consistency is key. Use one and stick with it. Then make sure that the other variant redirects to the main one to avoid the site being indexed twice by Google.