ttst — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 18:28:11 +0000

www. before a domain is a waste of time and never should have been invented. Imagine those people who type " h t t p : / / w w w . ... "

davidjaymz — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 18:34:11 +0000

I have this bit of code in my .htaccess file to redirect everyone from www. to .

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} <a href="http://www.domain.com" class="bb-url">domain.com</a>
RewriteRule ^(.*) http://domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

chrishirst — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 07:59:29 +0000

The SEs do sometimes sort this out, BUT there can be problems along the way, because the www and non-www are seen as duplicates. Eventually they will only show one or the other but you have no choice over which one, and each SE may show a different version.

You should have a 301 redirect in place to ensure that only one version, Your preferred one is shown in the SERPs

Greg K — Tue, 19 Jul 2005 06:07:45 +0000

I have found it is best to have both. I'm the type who first tries it without the WWW if I'm just typing it in by hand. However, may people always do the www.

Do you know how many times I have told someone at work to go to "webmail.pair.com" and you watch them, and they enter webmail.pair.com (which they do have setup to work)

The hosting company I use automatically sets up the www for me.

-Greg