Forcing with or without www. ?
 

What's better?

Does it even matter these days?

Discuss.

I prefer www.

same

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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

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

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

www here,

non www to www 301 redirect htaccess

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

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.

go for www.

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

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 :winkwink:

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

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

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.

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.

This we agree on.

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

A content penalty :helpme Tell me more please :pimp

Fair enough :winkwink: So how do you force it? I'd be happy to force the www. to come up :thumbsup

:thumbsup :1orglaugh

I use to put something like this in .htaccess

i prefer non ;)

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.

interesting replies.

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

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

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

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

Today for Sears. TV.

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? :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

+1 :pimp

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.

Never use www.

it doesn't matter.

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