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Which is better, to have a www or not to have the www to start you domain name? I know Search Engine Land redirects the www to the non-www, so their canonical domain is http://searchengineland.com/ not http://www.searchengineland.com/. Here we use the www and redirect the non-www to the www.
Which is better?
The answer is neither. They are both the same for Google. It is more of a brand decision than anything else.
The question was asked by Brett Levreau:
Curious #seo question..what's preferred, a 'non www' url or one with 'www'?🤔 @JohnMu @rustybrick @dannysullivan @methode @BritneyMuller
— Brett Levreau (@BLevreau) August 2, 2017
Pete Meyers from Moz answered and John Mueller from Google backed his answer up:
yep
— John ☆.o(≧▽≦)o.☆ (@JohnMu) August 3, 2017
So do what you want, but stick to one or the other if you can control it. If not, Google will figure it out anyway.
Which do you use? I suspect most of the internet uses the WWW.
Forum discussion at Twitter.
