www or no www

[Austin]

Any point to adding a 'www' to urls or go with just https:// and no www?

[Matty2]

Use he WWW people are used to typing it out.

[HeidiHoe]

Any point to adding a 'www' to urls or go with just https:// and no www?

My personal preference is going naked, but it doesn't really matter. Just choose one and redirect the other to it. Don't use both and not use a redirect because it's not ideal for SEO.

[TheButcher]

Old habit I always set up scripts with the www but in my htaccess I have a line if you need it I will get it which redirects the non-www to www.

[CanadianChick]

Any seo advantage to one or the other?

[TheButcher]

Any seo advantage to one or the other?

Technically the www is a subdomain if you think about it

[HeidiHoe]

Any seo advantage to one or the other?

Technically the www is a subdomain if you think about it

Yep, it is. If you look at your dns settings you'll see that the www sub is pointed at the same location as your naked domain. That's usually the default setup. You could actually change that if you want. There's no rule saying that's what you have to do.

[24alex]

Make it less not more when people have to type in a url, that is me.

[Zug]

Choose one or the other and stick with it. Either way, use your htaccess file to determine which one is used through-out your domain. People, generally, will not type in www. Unless they live in a cave and have no clue of internet usage.

[born2bewild]

Choose one or the other and stick with it. Either way, use your htaccess file to determine which one is used through-out your domain. People, generally, will not type in www. Unless they live in a cave and have no clue of internet usage.

Read the underlined sentence

[Zug]

... use your htaccess file to determine which one is used through-out your domain.

.htaccess file .. works on my server but may not on everyone else's.

Code: Select all

# Redirect www urls to non-www
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.YOURDOMAIN\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) https://YOURDOMAIN.com/$1 [R=301,L]

[Aleks]

Adding the www is pointless now a days.

[T.B.W]

... use your htaccess file to determine which one is used through-out your domain.

.htaccess file .. works on my server but may not on everyone else's.

Code: Select all

# Redirect www urls to non-www
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.YOURDOMAIN\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) https://YOURDOMAIN.com/$1 [R=301,L]

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