SEO Tycoon

**Christoph** · 02-28-2010, 06:34 AM

Dear Webmaster's

I have a quick question:

I have read a lot of stories about gaining links to your nacked domian rather than www. is next to useless.

Aparently its good practise in SEO to try and attain all your backlinks with www.name

I am sligtly confused by this concept, surely its utter rubbish? From a search engine point of view, don't they value "natural" links. With any site gaining "natural" links it would be surely inevitable that this is going to happen and surley wouldnt discredit you as a result.

Looking forward to your responses.

**chrishirst** · 02-28-2010, 06:42 AM

Be consistent and use ONE version only and/or redirect the other to your preferred one.

Eventually SEs will figure it out and only show one version BUT any links pointing to the other will be wasted.

**chrishirst** · 02-28-2010, 06:43 AM

AND

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/websit...tml#post992243

**Christoph** · 02-28-2010, 06:49 AM

Thanks Chris,

Really appreciated.

You would think search engines would be able to manage this better by now.

**chrishirst** · 02-28-2010, 07:17 AM

Actually they never will manage it better than they do now. There are some cases where the www sub-domain and the non-www version may well be different. It is only accepted convention that the two will resolve to the same content provider.
As an example, for technical reasons, we have some sites on our servers where the hostname (non-www) has to resolve to a Linux box and the website itself has to be on a Windows box. Therefore they are on two different IPs.

**Sierra Charlie** · 03-04-2010, 04:29 AM

What I've been doing is point the http://name to www.name through a 301 redirection. Less Hassle, I don't lose my backlinks and I don't have to bite my nails whether the crawler can access it correctly either.

Little point though. If you use a sub domain, SEs think that it's a separate website. Case in point is wordpress and blogspot.

Try using (sub) folders instead of sub domains as much as possible. You automatically send your link juice to the folder. No Problemo. Check this for some insight.

**janestewart** · 03-08-2010, 02:46 AM

I agree with chris, use any one of the version otherwise redirect the other to your preferred one by using 301.

Thanks Chris.