Adding www to blog URL

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  bozea · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 10:56 am

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  Hi,

  After extensive search/research I did not find any solution so approaching you. My blog objets-decoration-maison.fr is hosted on wordpress.com. By default, the domain redirects to http://objets-decoration-maison.fr whereas I want the by default location to http://www.objets-decoration-maision.fr (with www. in front).

  I couldn’t find a solution to this.

  Any help is appreciated.

  Julien

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  raincoaster · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 11:29 am

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  If you use the www version, something like a third of internet users will not be able to get to your site. The one WITHOUT the www outranks the www version. As far as I am aware, WordPress.com does not offer any option to limit your URL to http://www.whatever.

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  rosclarke · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 12:04 pm

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  No, WP.com will always automatically strip out the www.

  Why would you want it though?

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  vivianpaige · Member · Nov 22, 2008 at 3:19 pm

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  It’s actually in the FAQ. And there was a post about this a few days ago with a link to a site that explained why the www is redundant.

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  bozea · Member · Nov 23, 2008 at 11:52 am

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  Thanks a lot people.

  I always thought that www. version is better than without it. So I will stop trying in vein to go for a www version. However, it would be good to learn why www is redundant so I will dig into the FAQ as suggested by vivian.

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  douglaskev · Member · Nov 23, 2008 at 4:27 pm

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  interesting- if i were to change the default url to not include www would that affect things like stumble upon & digg rankings with the original www. url?

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  rosclarke · Member · Nov 23, 2008 at 6:20 pm

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  @bozea, read Raincoaster’s first reply to youe question in this thread. That explains why you shouldn’t want the www.