When I first started my building my blog I didn't know about www vs no www. My blog did not have www. Later on after reading some blog posts, I changed it to www. I'm getting ready to start the backlinking process. Searching in google my url without www is on page 3 for phrase match and I haven't even done anything to it. Some pages that I have created which have www are already indexed. The url with www I can't find at all. Being on page 3 to me seems pretty close to the goal. Should I promote my url without www. or basically start from the beginning promoting the url with www? Thanks for the help.
www vs no www
- Thread starter Cashless Clay
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I doubt it has any affect on your ability to rank, but it may affect your CTR. When I was running Adwords campaigns (before I was banned!) I split tested www vs no www on my PPC campaigns. No matter what the www. always came out higher. Sometimes it was marginal (0.01%) and other times it was significant (highest I saw was 2.4% increase). So you might have a 1st position rank on your non-www but the CTR is lower than if the www was there. Whether this same data applies to SEO, I don't know ... it's difficult to split test SEO concepts because of all the variables.
Have you added your site to Google webmaster tools? Add it there and then tell Google which one you want. From that point on they will treat them the same.
Have you added your site to Google webmaster tools? Add it there and then tell Google which one you want. From that point on they will treat them the same.
I believe you can rank separately for both however at the other posters stated when you start link building stick with one or the other and you'll be fine. If you have updated your blog to show www. then go with www.
Oh yes it does, You can read the Google's guidelines in Webmasters and read for yourself. You need to make sure that you make the site open in one version only.