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[Athena]

There seems to be a lot of confusion with using WWW or not using WWW with your website URL. Does it matter one way or another? The answer is no it doesn't matter if you add the WWW before your website URL or you decide to eliminate the WWW before your website URL. Today this is a personal preference and it is up to you to choose the way you present your site's URL to search engines. However, you do this, you must stick with it and always use the same URL no matter what. If you've already submitted your site's URL to a search engine, it is necessary that you continue to use the same URL in order to benefit from the small things and not have your site banned for double content.

Changing Your URL:

If you have submitted your website to a search engine using www.site.com and now have decided that you want to just use site.com, the search engine will now consider this two different websites and will ban your site for double pages, content, and also keywords.

Long ago when the practice of link purchasing was widespread there were a lot of questions concerning adding www to the beginning of the URL address a site used. In the early days, the confusion leads to a lot of link failure and caused webmasters a lot of trouble on the sites they built. Webmasters needed to monitor the site to make sure that the two different options weren't considered the main mirror by the search engines.

What Are The Differences?

If a website uses www in their hostname it will adjust the DNS which will restrict the cookies while visiting or utilizing other domains. This is a technical privilege given to sites that add the www before their URL hostname.

If your website doesn't use www before the hostname, you are not granted the same privileges as a site that uses www before their hostname. When you choose your URL hostname it is recommended that you speak the name out loud and decide if you like www.site.com better than you like site.com. Just keep in mind that a harmonic name is easier for a person to recall and remember when they are searching for your site online.

Today it is more important for you to concentrate on the SEO of your site and not so much on having www in front of your URL hostname or not. The www doesn't have any significant benefits if it is added to your URL hostname or not. The only thing you need to worry about when setting up your URL hostname is to make sure that you clearly clarify the website URL when it is registered and you keep the same website URL when registering with the different search engines.

Does Google Care?

If you are wondering if Google cares about you adding a www before your hostname or not, the answer is no. Google doesn't care one way or another. All Google cares about is that you continue to use the same hostname all the time and not change it. If you've registered your website using www before your hostname, this is what Google wants to see when you register your site. They don't want you to register your site without the www in front of your hostname.

So now you see there is no benefit in adding the www before your URL hostname. This is your personal choice one way or another and it doesn't matter how you decide. The only thing that matter is that whatever you decide, you stick with your decision for the life of your site.

What do you prefer a www before your hostname or just your hostname without a www?

 

[Bushbaby7]

Thanks for enlightening us :) I have to say I've seen URLs without the www and wondered what that's about? I also wondered if those websites were shady. Well, at least now I know they're completely kosher.

 

[Bushbaby7]

From an SEO perspective, www domains have some slight advantages and marginally improve the website's performance. And, if the website performance is better, then you can deliver a better user experience, which, in turn, enhances your website's performance in terms of SEO.

Thanks for your clarification - it really helps! Gosh, I wish I had your knowledge because you seem to be the font of all knowledge when it comes to this sort of thing. Kudos to you?? Are you on Fiverr? I feel you could really make a mint ob that site.

 

[El-Domenico]

On a personal note, I prefer the non-WWW format
It's basically a lot easier to use. The WWW comes with its benefits though

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There seems to be a lot of confusion with using WWW or not using WWW with your website URL. Does it matter one way or another? The answer is no it doesn't matter if you add the WWW before your website URL or you decide to eliminate the WWW before your website URL. Today this is a personal preference and it is up to you to choose the way you present your site's URL to search engines. However, you do this, you must stick with it and always use the same URL no matter what. If you've already submitted your site's URL to a search engine, it is necessary that you continue to use the same URL in order to benefit from the small things and not have your site banned for double content.

Changing Your URL:

If you have submitted your website to a search engine using www.site.com and now have decided that you want to just use site.com, the search engine will now consider this two different websites and will ban your site for double pages, content, and also keywords.

Long ago when the practice of link purchasing was widespread there were a lot of questions concerning adding www to the beginning of the URL address a site used. In the early days, the confusion leads to a lot of link failure and caused webmasters a lot of trouble on the sites they built. Webmasters needed to monitor the site to make sure that the two different options weren't considered the main mirror by the search engines.

What Are The Differences?

If a website uses www in their hostname it will adjust the DNS which will restrict the cookies while visiting or utilizing other domains. This is a technical privilege given to sites that add the www before their URL hostname.

If your website doesn't use www before the hostname, you are not granted the same privileges as a site that uses www before their hostname. When you choose your URL hostname it is recommended that you speak the name out loud and decide if you like www.site.com better than you like site.com. Just keep in mind that a harmonic name is easier for a person to recall and remember when they are searching for your site online.

Today it is more important for you to concentrate on the SEO of your site and not so much on having www in front of your URL hostname or not. The www doesn't have any significant benefits if it is added to your URL hostname or not. The only thing you need to worry about when setting up your URL hostname is to make sure that you clearly clarify the website URL when it is registered and you keep the same website URL when registering with the different search engines.

Does Google Care?

If you are wondering if Google cares about you adding a www before your hostname or not, the answer is no. Google doesn't care one way or another. All Google cares about is that you continue to use the same hostname all the time and not change it. If you've registered your website using www before your hostname, this is what Google wants to see when you register your site. They don't want you to register your site without the www in front of your hostname.

So now you see there is no benefit in adding the www before your URL hostname. This is your personal choice one way or another and it doesn't matter how you decide. The only thing that matter is that whatever you decide, you stick with your decision for the life of your site.

What do you prefer a www before your hostname or just your hostname without a www?

 

[Reznov]

After 6 years, now a lot of browsers including Google chrome started removing the www from website and showing only website's name+domain, they even hide the subdomains and show them only when you click on them

 

[mcjerry001]

I'm a non-www fan, to be frank I never type www, old people do that

Me too, for when typed on a browser URL area, it will bring same result. But www and no www are two different thing. The www you add to a website name stands as a subdomain name

 

[Bushbaby7]

Hahaha I like how everyone is saying www is only used by old people. But whether or not there's the www don't we arrive at the same destination, so to speak?

@mcjerry001 now my brain is well and truly stewed with that last bit ? ?

 

[mcjerry001]

Hahaha I like how everyone is saying www is only used by old people. But whether or not there's the www don't we arrive at the same destination, so to speak?

@mcjerry001 now my brain is well and truly stewed with that last bit ? ?

Wow Thank you. But I don't know why some people are saying www is used by old people. That is not true. Even young people are also using it. If you tell some young person to insert a website, sometimes they will ask, if to add www before the website name. He or she also did not that it is the same

 

[Joelk]

I think I like the old www thing but looking at how technology is escalating, People don't fancy putting the www so I would go for a non-www web

 

[filipina4friend]

I'm a non-www fan, to be frank I never type www, old people do that

hahaha :)

 

[Toolmoney]

Does it really matter? I see no visible difference in including www when visiting website as the end result is always to land the website after all, doesn't matter if you include it or not the site still comes up.

 

[GoldenLady]

Google will crawl either www or non-www site, but the difference is the site with www is more professional to look than non-www. People will trust more to the url with www.

Same thoughts I have. People are used to www and some, especially the older generation will shy away from websites without it. Even if it doesn't affect SEO, I would rather use it for familiarity

 

[beyond11]

When you SEO optimize your website you need to choose WWW or without WWW version of your website URL. If you forget it - it can lead to DUPLICATION that you can check with any SEO tools.

 

[SeeThis]

For the vast majority of sites it really doesn't matter much. But unless your site is already setup to use the www.domain.tld I'd go with domain.tld simply because it's shorter and avoids potential unnecessary redirects to the www sub-domain. I personally never add www when I'm typing something in the address bar, and I'm pretty sure the same hold true for most people. This isn't the 90s anymore.

That said, there is one niche case where you might want to default to a www sub-domain, and that's when you're using multiple sub-domains for content. For example you might have a forum on forum.domain.tld and maybe a blog on blog.domain.tld. In this case having the main site on www.domain.tld might make sense because it allows users to directly target it using search engines' boolean/advanced search. For example if a user wants wants to find something on your blog using Google he/she can directly search for it using "make money site:blog.domain.tld". This will only show results from the blog sub-domain. Easy enough right? So why might www matter here? Well, if you're not using www a user won't be able to narrow down search results from the main (sub-)domain. For example, if he/she then searches for "make money site:domain.tld" results from all sub-domains will be shown instead of just results from the main site. But if it defaults to www then you can do "make money site:www.domain.tld" which would only show results from the main sub-domain, without results from the blog and forum sub-domains. But like I said, this is obviously a very niche thing. Most users have no idea what boolean search is or how to perform advanced search queries. And one could argue that having to type less is a bigger plus than being able to easily filter search results from the main sub-domain (in case of multiple sub-domains being used).

TL;DR: You almost always want domain.tld instead of www.domain.tld. Especially if you're not using any other sub-domains for content.

 

[Bisola]

I'm a non-www fan, to be frank I never type www, old people do that

Lol same here. I reydo not like the www thing. I prefer https. I think that's better. Also, some people use the www for scams. I mean once you open the link on their page and it takes you to a new site, you may lose all your phone files and it may even hack your phone. The https that shows padlock at the beginning seems to be better

 

[MayorKayz]

I don't usually add www to my domain names and to the domain name of websites that I do visit. Because I do think that the with or without www will always leads to the same website.
But I never knew that it will be affected it www is added when submitting to search engines hut not included on the website.
This post as made me to know the mistake that can be made with adding www to our website. I will check the domain name I submitted to Google so as to be free from ban.

 

[kayode10]

People are no longer using the format you stated in your post. is only very few of the people are making use of www on their URL. the structure of your URL is the most important thing it must be short and contain the keyword you are targeting on the page. The important basis of SEO is to discover lots of less competitive keywords in your niche. You write contents on them. The next thing is to start building backlinks to the page in order to build its authority so that it will rank for multiple long tail keywords on Google search engine.

 

[Rubee]

You are right. It's not compulsory to add www before your host name and google do not care whether you add www before your host name or not. Honestly, i don't prefer adding www before my hostname. I never type www when searching on google. It just seem like a weird and outdated thing to do.

 

[Yugocean]

WWW is world wide web, but its not compulsory to use browser for a site, for example you may just put beermoneyforum.com in browser, and click the ENTER button, it will take you to this site, browser will itself record the www.
You don't even need to put the hypertext transfer protocol for it.

 

[Ben Kempton]

I think that when it comes to rankings, what matters the most is your content and your promotional strategy that you tend to use in order to promote your site. The quality of your content may also play a major role when it comes to getting ranked on the search engine. There are many blogs that do not start with the "WWW" domain, but still they rank quite well.

 

[Gbadab]

With my little experience and what I was taught in school. I prefer non www. I was taught in school that https is better than the rest. Actually, I still visit www sites because I've got no choice but if I have a choice, I will always go for www websites. The reason is that I was told that https is more secure than using www. I heard that the connection is secure and your data is safe if you use https. So, I'm not a fan of www.

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There seems to be a lot of confusion with using WWW or not using WWW with your website URL. Does it matter one way or another? The answer is no it doesn't matter if you add the WWW before your website URL or you decide to eliminate the WWW before your website URL. Today this is a personal preference and it is up to you to choose the way you present your site's URL to search engines. However, you do this, you must stick with it and always use the same URL no matter what. If you've already submitted your site's URL to a search engine, it is necessary that you continue to use the same URL in order to benefit from the small things and not have your site banned for double content.

Changing Your URL:

If you have submitted your website to a search engine using www.site.com and now have decided that you want to just use site.com, the search engine will now consider this two different websites and will ban your site for double pages, content, and also keywords.

Long ago when the practice of link purchasing was widespread there were a lot of questions concerning adding www to the beginning of the URL address a site used. In the early days, the confusion leads to a lot of link failure and caused webmasters a lot of trouble on the sites they built. Webmasters needed to monitor the site to make sure that the two different options weren't considered the main mirror by the search engines.

What Are The Differences?

If a website uses www in their hostname it will adjust the DNS which will restrict the cookies while visiting or utilizing other domains. This is a technical privilege given to sites that add the www before their URL hostname.

If your website doesn't use www before the hostname, you are not granted the same privileges as a site that uses www before their hostname. When you choose your URL hostname it is recommended that you speak the name out loud and decide if you like www.site.com better than you like site.com. Just keep in mind that a harmonic name is easier for a person to recall and remember when they are searching for your site online.

Today it is more important for you to concentrate on the SEO of your site and not so much on having www in front of your URL hostname or not. The www doesn't have any significant benefits if it is added to your URL hostname or not. The only thing you need to worry about when setting up your URL hostname is to make sure that you clearly clarify the website URL when it is registered and you keep the same website URL when registering with the different search engines.

Does Google Care?

If you are wondering if Google cares about you adding a www before your hostname or not, the answer is no. Google doesn't care one way or another. All Google cares about is that you continue to use the same hostname all the time and not change it. If you've registered your website using www before your hostname, this is what Google wants to see when you register your site. They don't want you to register your site without the www in front of your hostname.

So now you see there is no benefit in adding the www before your URL hostname. This is your personal choice one way or another and it doesn't matter how you decide. The only thing that matter is that whatever you decide, you stick with your decision for the life of your site.

What do you prefer a www before your hostname or just your hostname without a www?