The other day I encountered a someone asking how should they manage incoming links that do not contain www as part of the url as the site was optimized in to be used with the www versions of the links.
The same question is asked differently sometimes as to what is the best practice to link to a site [your site]. Though a number of times you dont have much control over the incoming links to your site, but sometimes you do, when links are mutually agreed or traded. If that is the case, then being consistent may be just enough and necessary and you are done.
However when that is not the case you have a resort at least for Google here. and for most of us Google is what matters, rest follow it. The idea is to submit your sitemap to Google and tell google what is your preferred domain. Once informed , Google will not treat the two incoming links differently, and such links will not be dividing your strength , in two weak link banks.
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2 Web Design Dave // Jul 15, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I don’t understand why it should make a difference. If anything, Google should imbrace websites that have variences because it shows that they probably didn’t submit their site to a link farm.
3 John Doe // Aug 1, 2007 at 6:24 pm
The only reason it does make a difference is because search engines take urls on character by character basis. So http://www.contents-magic.com/ is different from http://contents-magic.com/ .
Not even the above. An extreme example is that http://contents-magic.com/ is not the same as http://contents-magic.com . Different search engines work differently though.
Hope that helps.
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