http://netlife.com.au/2007/04/18/why-www-no-www/ the web, the net, that thing we all do Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:26:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://netlife.com.au/2007/04/18/why-www-no-www/#comment-4828 Aaron Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:40:53 +0000 http://netlife.com.au/2007/04/18/why-www-no-www/#comment-4828 We can only leave the www (and the http:// for that matter) off because our browser compensates. If you were to just have server.com this is a different server location for a non-http protocol. So instead of getting rid of www, we should really be using http:// as well, irrespective of redirects - also you may end up confusing search engine spiders who can't decide if http://example and http://www.example.com are the same thing or not. A domain is a domain. We can only leave the www (and the http:// for that matter) off because our browser compensates. If you were to just have server.com this is a different server location for a non-http protocol. So instead of getting rid of www, we should really be using http:// as well, irrespective of redirects - also you may end up confusing search engine spiders who can’t decide if http://example and http://www.example.com are the same thing or not. A domain is a domain.

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