Https://Www.yoursite.com vs https://yoursite.com?

Tizzu · Jul 14, 2020

Hey there fellow black hatters,
Recently I have came across an article that says you need to have “www” canonical to rank on google? Is this true? Is there Any recent change on google which requires “www” canonical?

any help would be much appreciated. thanks

Gogol · Jul 14, 2020

AFAIK, only have the canonical meta tag in your www version if you have not redirected to the non www version (or vice e versa); and both have the same content. Otherwise, don't do it.

zaferkabalak · Jul 14, 2020

I don't know if www works, but I always use it as https://yoursite.com

cooxer · Jul 14, 2020

I prefer withouth www because link looks shorter. There are no differences as far as you use proper non www to to www or vice versa redirects.

Gogol · Jul 14, 2020

cooxer said:
I prefer withouth www because link looks shorter. There are no differences as far as you use proper non www to to www or vice versa redirects.

zaferkabalak said:
I don't know if www works, but I always use it as https://yoursite.com

Guys, how about reading what is being asked; first?

Recently I have came across an article that says you need to have “www” canonical to rank on google? Is this true? Is there Any recent change on google which requires “www” canonical?

cooxer · Jul 14, 2020

Gogol said:
Guys, how about reading what is being asked; first?

Sorry my auto reply bot couldn’t pick up the question

laurmat · Jul 14, 2020

Just look at some classic examples of websites that rank/ranked for a lot of kws: ex. https://10beasts.com

Visual Eagle · Jul 14, 2020

Afaik you dont need the www canonical...

Glenn BH · Jul 14, 2020

Tizzu said:
Recently I have came across an article that says you need to have “www” canonical to rank on google? Is this true? Is there Any recent change on google which requires “www” canonical?

What was the exact wording? Are you sure you didn't misunderstand something?

MaxGuard · Jul 14, 2020

Anyone can write an article like that! Even a case study of single site doesn't mean much. AFAIK it's not required to have a www canonical url to rank on google...

True Miller · Jul 14, 2020

www. is for boomers

rafark · Jul 14, 2020

Tizzu said:
Hey there fellow black hatters,
Recently I have came across an article that says you need to have “www” canonical to rank on google? Is this true? Is there Any recent change on google which requires “www” canonical?

any help would be much appreciated. thanks

You can host a different site per subdomain. The documents pointing to example.com and www.example.com are NOT the same even if you're serving the same content.

You have two options: redirect all your www traffic to your root domain, or keep both sites and use a canonical on the www site (or vice-versa).

Scorpion Ghost · Jul 14, 2020

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Tizzu · Jul 15, 2020

Gogol said:
AFAIK, only have the canonical meta tag in your www version if you have not redirected to the non www version (or vice e versa); and both have the same content. Otherwise, don't do it.

Right, I think cpanal would automatically redirect these to

zaferkabalak said:
I don't know if www works, but I always use it as https://yoursite.com

Right! Thanks buddy!

cooxer said:
I prefer withouth www because link looks shorter. There are no differences as far as you use proper non www to to www or vice versa redirects.

thanks for the reply buddy

dadone said:
Just look at some classic examples of websites that rank/ranked for a lot of kws: ex. https://10beasts.com

yes! I think that Article was a false alarm

Visual Eagle said:
Afaik you dont need the www canonical...

Thanks buddy

Glenn BH said:
What was the exact wording? Are you sure you didn't misunderstand something?

I think so, I cant remember the exact wording as I just read it quickly and passed on. I think it was a false alarm

PHP-Rockstars said:
Anyone can write an article like that! Even a case study of single site doesn't mean much. AFAIK it's not required to have a www canonical url to rank on google...

Thanks buddy.

True Miller said:
www. is for boomers

hahhha!!

rafark said:
You can host a different site per subdomain. The documents pointing to example.com and www.example.com are NOT the same even if you're serving the same content.
You have two options: redirect all your www traffic to your root domain, or keep both sites and use a canonical on the www site (or vice-versa).

Do I have to do it manually from the cpanal? Or is it happening automatically unless I change it?

Gogol · Jul 15, 2020

Tizzu said:
Do I have to do it manually from the cpanal? Or is it happening automatically unless I change it?

I don't think it happens automatically, but I rarely use cpanel. That being said, if you have wordpress, it will redirect itself to the site url. So, you don't actually have to do anything.

Tizzu · Jul 15, 2020

Gogol said:
I don't think it happens automatically, but I rarely use cpanel. That being said, if you have wordpress, it will redirect itself to the site url. So, you don't actually have to do anything.

Great. Thanks buddy

200 · Jul 15, 2020

I like www and redirect none www.

youdeweb · Jul 15, 2020

No difference, I prefer with www.

Get Web Growth · Jul 20, 2020

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