Backlinks to http://mywebsite.com/ or http://mywebsite.com

mojamalatajna

Regular Member

Aug 18, 2011

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• Oct 2, 2012

• #1

So in wordpress general settings it says
[TABLE="class: form-table"]
[TR]
[TH]WordPress Address (URL)
[/TH]
[TD][/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TH]Site Address (URL)
[/TH]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
without / but when i go in my browser and copy paste the link of the website i have mywebsite.com/

so should i backlink to mywebsite.com/ ?

 

OnlineA

Power Member

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Sep 7, 2012

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• Oct 2, 2012

• #2

You should 301 redirect non www to www, so google doesn't see it as duplicate content. No idea about wordpress, I hate wordpress.

 

SeoQuest

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Jun 24, 2012

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• Oct 3, 2012

• #3

I have used both variations and haven't seen any difference in ranking, but i think http://mywebsite.com/ looks better.

 

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teddyboy

Newbie

Oct 3, 2012

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• Oct 3, 2012

• #4

Any comments from seo experts? im curious about this also.

 

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willywonka

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Jan 9, 2010

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• Oct 3, 2012

• #5

Watch the video on this page at 11:05

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/whiteboard-interview-googles-matt-cutts-on-redirects-trust-more

 

psytrance

Power Member

Jan 20, 2012

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• Oct 3, 2012

• #6

without / of course.... with / looks bot made xD

 

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brkseven

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May 14, 2011

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• Oct 3, 2012

• #7

By default use without www, but get some links pointing to www as well. Redirect 301 www to non www.

Good luck!

 

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DarkMeta

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Sep 27, 2012

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• Oct 3, 2012

• #8

to look natural it should be without /

 

-adrian

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Aug 9, 2012

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• Oct 3, 2012

• #9

I don't think the trailing / matters at all from an SEO perspective.. it's true that omitting it looks more natural, but I dout it has an actual effect on ranks.. the www thing sure, but not the /.

 

MatthewWoodward

Senior Member

Aug 31, 2012

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• Oct 3, 2012

• #10

I dont believe this actually matters as much as it once did.

It used to be the case that google see's it as different domains/sites but I dont see that anymore.

I build my backlinks to a variety of urls such as-

http://www.domain.com/
http://www.domain.com
http://domain.com
http://domain.com/
http://domain.com/index.php

I have been doing so for quite some time and cant say I have encountered any adverse effects from doing so.

 

WHmaniac

Newbie

May 20, 2010

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• Oct 4, 2012

• #11

From the interview with Matt Cutts (link already posted by someone above):

Is a Trailing / Important in URL Structure?

Click to expand...

Seems like a minor thing right? Do you use url.com/folder of url.com/folder/ in your URL structure? Matt says he would slightly advocate for using a trailing slash simply because it clearly indicates that a URL is a folder and not a document. That said, Google is quite good at differentiating so it's not a huge deal.

Click to expand...

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thakarpratik

Senior Member

Dec 5, 2011

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• Oct 4, 2012

• #12

i would suggest check in google to see version of your website is indexed,with or without www,based on that either change it or leave it