Posted by WD10 on 09/14/05 04:25

On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:56:17 +1000, Mark Parnell wrote:

> Did you have a look at the link I posted? While their view is a bit
> extreme IMHO, the whole www thing does annoy me, in particular sites where
> you have to include it or else you can't access the site. I realise that's
> not what you are doing of course. :-)

I just read that page. I agree that all sites should be accessible by
typing either form, but I think it's better to redirect to one or the
other so that the search engines don't think you have "duplicate content".
I prefer the "www" because most people
give you inbound links with "www" and I don't want to redirect them all.
Sites that don't work without the "www" are terrible. Linux.org does it
(sorry, "www.Linux.org") and before I figured it out I thought that the
site was down. They are probably losing a lot of traffic because of it.

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