Www vs "non" www site addresses and SEO
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I first apologize for the lame question title - didn't really know how to word it... I'm having a bit of a conundrum and cannot figure out whats going on, but in the mean time I thought I would ask to see if its hurting my ranking.
My site at www.ap-mg.com is built on WordPress using the Thesis them by DIY (just a little upfront info). I am very careful to make sure that all my links are in a particular format i.e. http://www.ap-mg.com - on my site, as well as other sites I have my profile on. My site also used to be hosted on the /home directory until about a month ago.
My problem is that when I click on the DA MoxBar link while at my sites homepage, it takes me to Open Explorer, but to ap-mg.com and shows no results - I then add the www to the front of the address and vuala - results. But then the second issue I'm having is then it tells me that my site is redirecting the the /home directory, which its not and I'm still trying to figure that one out.
So with all the craziness with my site, www, no www, /home....is this killing any chance of real ranking?
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Thanks Sparkplug, I appreciate the quick response.
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The good news is the the non-www version automatically redirects to http://www.ap-mg.com/. This is the optimal setup because you only have 1 url for your homepage, and so if someone links to http://ap-mg.com/, most of the link juice will be passed to http://www.ap-mg.com/ and you will not have to worry about duplicate content.
Thesis is a great Wordpress theme for SEO because it was built with SEO in mind and most of the technical aspects should not be an issue. I use Thesis for my personal blog.
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