WWW. is depricated
Who still types www into their browser anymore? If you leave the www out it still goes to the domain you wanted except it looks cleaner. For instance, http://top-webhosts.info looks better than http://www.top-webhosts.info… doesn’t it? Infact, some sites are only accessible by leaving out the www. Typing in www makes the site inaccessible, meaning you have to type domain.com. According to no-www.org this type is known as a class c domain. Some domains redirect their traffic pointing to domain.com to www.domain.com instead. That’s kinda backwards seeing as no www is better than with www.
From an seo point of view this is something to look into as well. If you allow www.domain.com and domain.com without redirection. Then you’ll find that one or the other will have a higher pagreank than the other. This is because www and no www are two different url’s. So one might have more backlinks, referrals etc. Which makes even more sense to make both accessible but just have www redirect to no www. I.e. http://www.domain.com will redirect to http://domain.com. This way all your pagerank will be attributed to domain.com and not www.domain.com.
Try it yourself, goto http://www.amfrservices.net/ which has a PR4 but if you goto http://amfrservices.net/ it will show up as PR1.
So how to become no-www compliant?
Quoted directly from no-www.org
“Q: How can I become Class B?
A: It’s a fairly simple process, actually. Create a file called .htaccess and paste the following lines, changing the domain name to match that of your site:”Apache Webserver: RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L] Windows Server/IIS:
No data available. Email info@no-www.org if you have more info.I suggest you visit no-www.org to find out more info if your interested in this topic.
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