www.domain.com or domain.com

maxidrom11 · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 18

I have a web site -www.example.com :
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are -www.example.org and example.org two different websites for google and just one???

Should I link the website with one same URL or both???

Please help me understand.

SeO · Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:43 pm Post subject: Re: www.domain.com or domain.com

Well, -www.example.com is a genuine sub-domain of example.com, it's just the default one used in most cases.
Usually it is set to match the same folder as the main domain (example.com) and that's why it can create some confusion for Search Engines.

Because -www.example.com/a-page.html is a duplicate of example.com/a-page.html and basically all -www.example.com/ is a duplicate of example.com/a-page.html

It's a major and very common SEO issue, the way to fix it is simple, choose one between the two and apply the www prefix redirection to make sure the one chosen and only it can be used. The other one will be HTTP 301 redirected, so that all links will always work and duplicates will, after a month or so, disappear from the SERPs (which is a very good thing).

Example :
http://phpbb-seo.com/boards/