http://www vs. http:// ??

[optycont]

I have been told that http://www.domain.com is always better for SEO than just http://domain.com. I was hoping that someone could explain why this is the case and explain the disadvantages of submitting a URL with only http://.

Thanks for any info ----

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[SVB]

Because most people link to a site with "www". If I was recommending your site to somebody, or mentioning it on my site or forum, I would use www. If you have concentrated on getting http:// into the search engines, then my www links wouldn't be much use to you.

[gorillaboy]

Basically pick one or the other and stick w/ it.

[greg]

both are treated as seperate pages when calculating back links, so it is important to use exclusively one of the other

[gorillaboy]

Originally Posted by greg

both are treated as seperate pages when calculating back links, so it is important to use exclusively one of the other

Even while linking internally.

[optycont]

very helpful

[baldlygo]

Am I the only one that is amazed that a/the world leader in Internet search technologies cannot understand that they are looking at the same site?

[awall19]

www. is a subdomain. it does not necissarily have to be the same thing as the non www version.

you also can use .htaccess to automatically redirect one to the other. likeso:

AddType text/html .shtml
AddHandler server-parsed .htm
AddHandler server-parsed .html
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^search-marketing\.info
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.search-marketing.info/$1 [R=permanent,L]