Link credit www vs non-www?
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I have noticed that when I run the open explorer on my website that I get a different list of linking domains depending on if the back link used www or not.
I always ask and specify to use the non-www but many people do not pay a lot of attention to that?
I have set up 301 from www to the non-www as the non-www is my primary URL. How do i get credits for the 50+ that are pointing to the www?
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The 301 will give you the credit you're looking for. You can't really control how people link to you unless you're actually creating the link, so you just have to bear with it. Be sure to emphasize the non-www address when you're trying to get links so you get the full value of the link. The issue with non-www is that allot of people are accustomed to typing in a www and may ignore any suggestion you provide.
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Hi Jason,
If you've implemented the 301 redirect to the non-www version of your site, then you'll get credit for links that are pointing to the www version.
Open Site Explorer uses SEOMoz's Linkscape Index to provide the data you're seeing, and it hasn't been updated since February. If you've done the 301 since then, OSE will still be showing the old data. Remember, that OSE doesn't display the real-time data for the site, it's based on the last index update.
The next update is scheduled for April 27th, so if you'll check back then you should see that all your links are now pointing to the non-www version of the site.
You can check out the Linkscape Index update schedule here.
Hope this helps.
Anthony
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