Search Market Insights

You can have a domain with WWW or without WWW. But make sure that you are having only one kind of URL and not both. For instance, www.domainname.com is considered as sub domain of domainname.com and search engine ranking will be distributed between both URLs if users can access the page in both formats. As WWW is the most used URL type compared to non-WWW by the users, it is preferred to have domains with WWW and having redirects to the proper domain name for users who miss WWW while trying to access your website. You can check it yourself using Open Site Explorer. Even from technical point of view, WWW is preferable. If you are curious enough then you can check more on this. If you have both versions of pages, i.e. with WWW and without WWW, then do 301 redirection of duplicate page and do not use canonical tags on duplicate page. This helps you out people not visiting both the page formats of you have added both versions of page URLs by mistake in static sitemap of your websi...