Forcing with or without www. ? - GoFuckYourself.com

bns666 · 12-10-2012, 05:55 AM

What's better?

Does it even matter these days?

Discuss.

woj · 12-10-2012, 06:40 AM

I prefer www.

Juicy D. Links · 12-10-2012, 06:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by woj

I prefer www.

same

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spazlabz · 12-10-2012, 06:48 AM

yeah I am pretty much married to the whole http://www. thing... been typing it out for so long it is actually difficult for me to just type domain.com. I have to stop and think about it hahaha

Killswitch · 12-10-2012, 07:01 AM

It doesn't matter which one you force too anymore, but I suggest forcing to at least one.

Emil · 12-10-2012, 07:12 AM

I prefer "www" for no special reason, it just looks better to me.

freecartoonporn · 12-10-2012, 07:40 AM

www here,

non www to www 301 redirect htaccess

Chris · 12-10-2012, 07:43 AM

I always force to www but when i personally go to a site i rarely ever type www.

NatalieK · 12-10-2012, 07:46 AM

I prefer to just bung in a name & .com..

Are you saying that you always type www.gfy.com in your brouser?

I don't, gfy.com thank you very much. Saving 2seconds per site throughout the day.....
A lot of extra time available for work, rest & play

Tube Ace · 12-10-2012, 07:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GspotProductions

I prefer to just bung in a name & .com..

Are you saying that you always type www.gfy.com in your brouser?

I don't, gfy.com thank you very much. Saving 2seconds per site throughout the day.....
A lot of extra time available for work, rest & play

He means forcing to www. via .htaccess to prevent google dup content penalty.

Presnus · 12-10-2012, 07:55 AM

go for www.

Killswitch · 12-10-2012, 07:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GspotProductions

I prefer to just bung in a name & .com..

Are you saying that you always type www.gfy.com in your brouser?

I don't, gfy.com thank you very much. Saving 2seconds per site throughout the day.....
A lot of extra time available for work, rest & play

No I click a bookmark, but I force to www. because it looks better in the browser.

Stephen · 12-10-2012, 09:25 AM

A decent, short domain looks better and is more readable as Domain.com

BUT, places you might want to post a URL (such as a forum) will often ignore "Domain.com" but turn "www.domain.com" into an active hyperlink

Screwed Up · 12-10-2012, 09:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GspotProductions

I prefer to just bung in a name & .com..

Are you saying that you always type www.gfy.com in your brouser?

I don't, gfy.com thank you very much. Saving 2seconds per site throughout the day.....
A lot of extra time available for work, rest & play

I type gfy+CTRL+ENTER.
Saving you another second per site. ;)

DBS.US · 12-10-2012, 09:48 AM

I never type www
All my promo material is MySite.com not www.mysite.com

InfoGuy · 12-10-2012, 10:08 AM

Using www. is passé. Surfers have seen enough web addresses that it's no longer necessary. When's the last time you saw a TV or print ad that included the www. in their URL or heard the www. mentioned on the radio? With the proliferation of mobile devices and the tiny keypads, it's more important than ever to use shorter URLs so that people make fewer typos with their fat fingers.

cruxop · 12-10-2012, 10:12 AM

Redirect to either the wwww.domain.com or just domain.com, so you won't have duplicate content as seen by Google et al.

But apart from that, the only reason to go with a www.domain.com is that if you have a CDN or image server you'll want to serve from a subdomain like images.domain.com

In that case, you'll get better performance from not passing cookies to your static content only subdomain with every request. Serving from a URL without www, will pass cookies as that's the root domain. Serving from a URL with a www won't pass cookies because www is a subdomain and cookies don't pass across the subdomain barrier.

Otherwise, do what you want

Life is short.

AdultAudiences · 12-10-2012, 10:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by InfoGuy

Using www. is passé. Surfers have seen enough web addresses that it's no longer necessary. When's the last time you saw a TV or print ad that included the www. in their URL or heard the www. mentioned on the radio? With the proliferation of mobile devices and the tiny keypads, it's more important than ever to use shorter URLs so that people make fewer typos with their fat fingers.

This we agree on.

CyberHustler · 12-10-2012, 10:14 AM

I prefer without the www, but sometime last year I stopped giving a fuck about forcing. Have not been penalized for duplicate content.

Emil · 12-10-2012, 10:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cruxop

Redirect to either the wwww.domain.com or just domain.com, so you won't have duplicate content as seen by Google et al.

I think it's extremely stupid if they haven't fixed this bug yet, because it is a fucking bug.

NatalieK · 12-10-2012, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tube Ace

He means forcing to www. via .htaccess to prevent google dup content penalty.

A content penalty

Tell me more please

Quote:

Originally Posted by Killswitch

No I click a bookmark, but I force to www. because it looks better in the browser.

Fair enough

So how do you force it? I'd be happy to force the www. to come up

Quote:

Originally Posted by Screwed Up

I type gfy+CTRL+ENTER.
Saving you another second per site. ;)

CyberHustler · 12-10-2012, 10:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GspotProductions

So how do you force it? I'd be happy to force the www. to come up

I use to put something like this in .htaccess

Code:

RewriteEngine On 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

fris · 12-10-2012, 10:40 AM

i prefer non ;)

cruxop · 12-10-2012, 03:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emil

I think it's extremely stupid if they haven't fixed this bug yet, because it is a fucking bug.

Well technically www and the root domain are two seperate sites.

Google may actually do the correct thing behind the scenes, but being techies their webmaster toolkit will warn you that its duplicate content and you can't be sure if the www or the root domain is going to pop up in search.

bns666 · 12-12-2012, 01:17 PM

interesting replies.

Klen · 12-12-2012, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by fris

i prefer non ;)

So you are behind this site ?
http://no-www.org/

fris · 12-12-2012, 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GspotProductions

A content penalty

Tell me more please

Fair enough

So how do you force it? I'd be happy to force the www. to come up

google doesnt give you a penalty, they just dont index it.

Bird · 12-12-2012, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Screwed Up

I type gfy+CTRL+ENTER.
Saving you another second per site. ;)

Yup I pretty much hit CTRL+ENTER every time I type the domains on the browser address bar.

livexxx · 12-12-2012, 07:05 PM

G , Ctrl-Enter

301 for the norms. still like to shout at the TV when they say http colon slash slash, just in case someone still types in gopher colon slash slash

Phil LoadedCash · 12-12-2012, 07:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by InfoGuy

When's the last time you saw a TV or print ad that included the www. in their URL or heard the www. mentioned on the radio?

Today for Sears. TV.

CYF · 12-12-2012, 07:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by livexxx

G , Ctrl-Enter

301 for the norms. still like to shout at the TV when they say http colon slash slash, just in case someone still types in gopher colon slash slash

I absolutely HATED that!! They'd also say "forward slash forward slash" when it's just a slash. And the morons that would call it backslash on TV?

Matyko · 12-12-2012, 11:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chris

I always force to www but when i personally go to a site i rarely ever type www.

+1

baddog · 12-13-2012, 12:12 AM

These days, if it is a long domain name we pretty much go without www; all the older stuff has www and will stay that way.

buzzard · 12-13-2012, 12:21 AM

Never use www.

VenusBlogger · 12-13-2012, 12:46 AM

it doesn't matter.

also most multisite wordpress installs use domain.com without the www for their main site.

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