Www or no www in search results??
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I am working with a client, and when I check on SERP placement, I never see the "www" in the SERP's
only nameofcustomer.com not www.nameofcustomer.com. Of course there is a redirect going on...Question is...should this matter at all? I dont understand the relationship between this kind of redirect and SEO.
Thank Mozzers
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Thanks Louis,
I appreciate the time you spent to answer my question. I feel better and more educated now!
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Basically www. is just a subdomain that people used to use to host their web-facing content, as domain names were not used for hosting web-facing websites by default. They were used for tons of other junk. Now almost every domain name has web-facing content, and people host it randomly at either the www subdomain or on the root domain. For marketing purposes a lot of people intentionally redirect to the www subdomain because people are used to seeing it.
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It makes no difference for SEO, though it is a best practice to redirect either the WWW version or the non-WWW version to the other one, to keep things clean. You can do this with a mod rewrite in your htaccess, and in your Google Webmasters account.
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