diff between http:// and http://www.

blade007 · 4 Jul 2006 at 00:06

google has our company as

Code:

http://companyname.com

, yet it should be

Code:

http://www.companyname.com

... are these two different things?

blade007 · 4 Jul 2006 at 00:23

I was wondering if googlebot saw them as 2 independent pages containing identical content and was something to avoid.

edit: augmented just answered this as i was typing

blade007 · 4 Jul 2006 at 00:25

in this case how can i have a redirect so that it only ever sees one of them?

blade007 · 4 Jul 2006 at 00:34

thanks. v useful.

gonna give it a go

blade007 · 4 Jul 2006 at 08:29

it seems that our company has two, both the http:// and http://www ...not good after reading what's been said here. I'm gonna standardise it to the www I think, as everyone is used to that.

blade007 · 4 Jul 2006 at 09:46

Lagz said:
Your going to make your company website harder to find?! . . .eer. . . why?

we have natural links to our site that use the www. access, whereas google is indexing the http://company link.

gonna setup so that in the end everything gets to the same place. gonna use the 301 redirect (homepage moved permanently)

blade007 · 4 Jul 2006 at 09:58

i've setup the 301, so we'll see what happens ....

blade007 · 4 Jul 2006 at 18:41

yes, you used the one withot www. i don't think it matters which one you choose but having two default pages is bad in my view.