3W or Not 3W: That is the Question

I had never considered this before. Apparently, search engine ranking and site analysis tools can be affected depending on whether users include a “www” in the URL they are visiting (www.yahoo.com) or instead save a few keystrokes and avoid those pesky four characters (yahoo.com).

Mattfarina.com suggests this workaround:

“Luckily the solution for this is rather easy. Just have all sites that go to the "www." redirect to the non-"www." version or vice versa. Then search engines will see just the one site. For sites using Apache this is a simple site modification.”

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As an aside, some people feel so passionately on this topic that they devote web sites to it!

http://no-www.org/

http://www.yes-www.org/www-is-not-deprecated/