To www or not to www?

September 8th, 2005, 2:05 pm

WWW's go AWOL ....

When I do a google for subjects my site deals with, some of the url's
displayed in the search results have
http://www.domain.com/bla bla ........while others have http://domain.com/bla bla


It is rarer on Google than in Yahoo, which has this a lot.
(But on yahoo it is simply domain.com/bla bla)
I also see it with other sites.

I hope it is no big deal, but out of interest ...
Anybody know the significance of this?



Just to add: someone told me it was the "Missing W's Syndrome" ... but
to be honest I didn't really understand how it related to anything that I
have done in the past or am doing at present.

September 9th, 2005, 7:00 am

Hi,

Google will treat http://www.domainname.com & domainname.com as 2 different sites.
It is advisable to redirect domainname.com to http://www.domainname.com

September 9th, 2005, 2:21 pm

Redirect what to what exactly?

September 9th, 2005, 11:25 pm

Apply 301 (permanent re-direction) to domainname.com to http://www.domainname.com