www or not ?

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 5:20 am

I was glad to found this in my logfiles, because I did`t know enough about class A, B, or C Domains.

64.246.186.114 - - [04/Mar/2005:05:50:59 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 15677 "http://no-www.org/" "No-www verification bot - visit http://no-www.org for more information."

Really interesting check "get-validated" at no-www.org Smile

But of course the most important thing is, to have enough visitors.

Or what do you think about www ?

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 4:39 pm

I never use www. it's to useless.
Same with subdomains that use the WWW like www.sub.domain.com i.o. sub.domain.com

My server accepts both since there are people who love to type www. in front of everything.
FYI some even try to email me to something@www.domain.com

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:09 am

The most server accept both.
Your domain is Class A. Did you use htaccess or do you have both websites www.yoursite.com and yoursite.com in the google index ?

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:25 am

actualy i have 8 websites in the google index, and they all point to 1 domain.
Hack, even a sub domain uses the same member data Razz

The domains that go to the same content are:
www.cpgnuke.com, cpgnuke.com, dragonflycms.com, www.dragonflycms.com, dragonflycms.net, www.dragonflycms.net, dragonflycms.org, www.dragonflycms.org
And the sub-domain trevor.cpgnuke.com, trevor.dragonflycms.xxx uses the same member data.

My other domains just use the www. optional since 80% of the web users think www. is a "must do" since also all tv/radio commercials say you must use www.

So this actualy reveals the real issue: The media has to stop using www.
Also making a commercial without saying "www." 10 times will reduce the time which results in cheaper advertisement Smile

Hangin' Around Joined: Jun 25, 2004 Posts: 32

There are a large number of Australian based sites that are ONLY accessible with www. Confused

For example:
harveynorman.com.au (large furniture/electrical chain)
anz.com.au (one of the bigger Aussie banks)
There are plenty more..

Quote:

The media has to stop using www.

I think we need to educate some of our webhosts first. Wink

registered · Useless Joined: Aug 23, 2002 Posts: 213 Location: Chicago

I have my site setup so even if someone types chicagobase.com, it still takes them to www.chicagobase.com (using htaccess) I do it because of cookies set on my site. Yahoo! does same thing lately.

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:34 am

I ´m also using htaccess and the same way, From mysite.de to www.mysite.de because I got different PR for both sites. And the PR doesn ´t grow up. So redirect is the better way.

Site Admin/Owner Joined: Aug 27, 2002 Posts: 17088

The simplest and most common way is to just have a cname record for www. That way either will work. Then, the site owner can decide whether or not to redirect www.

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:42 am

And there is still a problem with index.php and index.html. They have different PR. But I heard Google can manage this.Maybe sometimes. So I dont use htaccess for the index.php

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:48 am

index.php and index.html ??

what about index.asp, home.html, default.html, etc., etc.

Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:57 am

Think the site www.yourdomain.com/index.asp is the same like www.mysite.de/index.html or index.php

Just check the different PR. And don`t forget htaccess is your friend. Smile