Hi there

I was playing with webmaster tools the other day and clicked on my site and went into settings and got these options

Don't set a preferred domain
Display URLs as www.website.com
Display URLs as website.com

The dot in my webmaster tools is actually in the first option, I have noticed that the forums on my site dont use the www and yet the rest of my site does use the www and these have the most links, if i put the dot in the middle option, will this alter my forums to www. too, should i do this ?

Woc

just setup your site to send 301 redirects to the non-www version. Set the webmaster tools to the same.

yep, 301's should do the job

cheers guys have sorted it now, just shows that u can miss something its been like that for years and really shouldnt have been lol !

Woc

I obey this : the website is too long use: website.com
is short use: www.website.com
then 301 the other to using ones.

use 301's is the best way