Pagerank www or not

[2hard2get]

Hello,

I have a problem regarding pagerank. If you look at picture number 1 and 4, you can see that it shows “pagerank” when I do not write www in front of my domaine name.

If you look at picture number 2 and 3 you can see that it does not show “pagerank” when I write www in front of my domaine name.

In the administration panel for eSyndicat I can see in my settings that my domaine is set not to use www. look at picture number 5

I have tried to change it so that it uses www, but it does not change anything. Do I have to wait for the next Sundance to get the update in which it uses my full domaine www.danmarksguiden.dk?!

www.danmarksguiden.dk/pr/1.png
www.danmarksguiden.dk/pr/2.png
www.danmarksguiden.dk/pr/3.png
www.danmarksguiden.dk/pr/4.png
www.danmarksguiden.dk/pr/5.png

www.danmarksguiden.dk NO Pagerank
danmarksguiden.dk Pagerank 3

[Michele]

Someone may know of a eSyndicat specific way, but the way I do that with my site is through a file on my server called .htaccess. I don't remember the code off the top of my head. If no one else chimes in, I'll look it up for you when I've got more time.

If you Google .htaccess (the dot is part of the filename) and domain redirect you should probably find an explanation better than I can give.

[Vincent Wright]

I'm not sure if this is what you want to do, but you might probably want to redirect non-www version to www version.

This is what you can put into .htaccess file (at the top of it) to achieve this:


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^danmarksguiden.dk
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.danmarksguiden.dk/$1 [R=301,L]


Now, type "danmarksguiden.dk" in the address bar of your browser and you will be redirected to "www.danmarksguiden.dk".

Hope this helps.

[sabian]

You need to decide which you want, with or without the www?

Presumably when you have been link building you've been submitting your site without the www? Which ever you have choosen your decision should be reflected in the site. You have links on your site to various pages some with the www and some without (eg the contact link at the bottom of pages doesnt have a www - but the main navigation pages do).

Potentially using both with and without with have an effect in regards to the search engines, google might even think there are two sites with duplicate content... which isn't good!!!

Do the change that Vincent suggests and either promote your site with or without the www - not both!!!

[2hard2get]

I will try too change all too www. and change my .htaccess file.

Thanks

[WTM]

Why would you change it to www if you have more high ranked pages without www?
I would definitely use main TLD.

[Vincent Wright]

To accomplish the reverse redirect: www to non-www version try this rule:


RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.danmarksguiden.dk
RewriteRule (.*) http://danmarksguiden.dk/$1 [R=301,L]

[sabian]

Why would you change it to www if you have more high ranked pages without www?
I would definitely use main TLD.

I agree, id stay without the www cause of the exsisting page rank. However from the start i would have done it with the www.

Whenever i don't have a .com website in my favourites i simply type in the domain name and then hit Ctrl+Enter which automatically puts the www and .com in for you in the address bar. Hence i never type in a domain name without a www in front of it...

[megrisoft]

You can read this article to learn more on Similar URL Structure and its importance (www vs non-www versions)
http://www.submitshop.com/articles/SEO_Articles/37.html

[Cougar]

I personally haven't tried this, but I read in another forum (can't find it again) that when you create a Google sitemap there is an option to tell Google to treat urls with & without 'www' as the same domain.

Apparently it's the only place in all of Google where you can access this setting.

Has anyone seen this option? I haven't got around to creating sitemaps on Google yet.

Cheers!
Mike

[Cougar]

I did a little checking using my main domain and this is what I found:

-Google shows more references without 'www', although the PR is the same either way.

- Yahoo shows 4-1 more references using 'www'

- MSN Search returns the same listings with or without 'www', so they treat both as the same site.

Since Yahoo & Google are opposite, I'm not sure which way to go... I went around asking everyone at work today if they type 'www' when surfing or searching and they all said no. There are some sites out there which won't load without the 'www', but I normally just type in the domain name.

So... should I 301-redirect to 'www' or away from it? :huh:

[megrisoft]

Here is an aritcle on www and non www version of your site
http://www.submitshop.com/articles/SEO_Articles/37.html

[whatcomweb]

Why not just use a 301 redirect?

[subseo]

Cougar, whatever you choose, you are fine, as long as you will use it consistently, and as whatcomweb says, put a redirect for the second variant (that you will not choose). That's for search engines.

As far as humans are concerned, the only problem I see, probably with some webhosts, sometimes the website is only visible under www and not non-www, and sometimes opposite, well that's not visitor friendly. No matter whether visitor types in www, he still should arrive.