SEO - www.yourdomain.com versus yourdomain.com

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Hello,

Regarding my Webmaster Tools Site Settings, it was recently set to: Display urls as yourdomain.com - but I've read that this may not be the best setting for SEO purposes. I'm not even sure why the redirect was set up in the first place. Most sites that I search come up with thehttp://www.yourdomain.com - including Google.

I need to increase traffic to my site as I let things go for a while when working on other projects. I'm not feeling comfortable that this url redirect is helpful. Can someone who is knowledgeable about SEO comment please? I have a person who helps me on the back-end of my site - I am not a programmer/designer. I just write and load content, and I have someone else handle anything technical that I don't know how to do.

Hope someone can give me advice. Right now I'm thinking I need to switch everything back tohttp://www.yourdomain.com and leave it at that. (My real website name is below)

Thanks!
Susan
http://www.GeminiUniversal.com

ses604
 
PineCreativeLabs replied on at Permalink Best Answer Reply
PineCreativeLabs
Either version is acceptable, since neither is better than the other. However, it is highly recommended to stick with one or the other. You can learn about specifying your preferred domain here:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/44231?hl=en...

Also, here is a useful article explaining the difference:

http://techwelkin.com/www-vs-non-www-seo-better-technical-differenc...
ses604 replied on at Permalink Reply
ses604
Thank you so much for the information! Yes, those articles were helpful.

Susan