mycustomaddress.com Vs www.mycustomaddress.com
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Hello,
We followed the link from the Dashboard and purchased the suggested .com address. However when I type http://www.futurehospitalityleaders.com my browser forwards to futurehospitalityleaders.com. I want my www. What do I do?
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Didn’t you read the information provided? All URLs with the ‘www” seamlessly direct to the URL without the “www”.
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It’s a multi-author blog so I didn’t read the info provided.
So can I purchase www. as a subdomain?
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No. I’m sorry but there’s no way you can have “www’. Given that every time anyone uses the “www” in the URL they will be seamlessly redirected to your blog it does not matter.
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We actually strip out the www. for convenience, and http://www.futurehospitalityleaders.com/ will redirect to http://futurehospitalityleaders.com/
www is an old protocol from back when everything was under a separate server. www (www.example.com) was the web server, mail (mail.example.com) was the mail server, ftp (ftp.example.com) was the FTP server, print (print.example.com) was the print server, etc.
These days, everything is run under the web server, making www. redundant and a waste of four characters.
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great answer to my question thanks! I’m a newbie learning as I go and was wondering the same thing! Bella Edibles
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OK, I appreciate all you’ve written, however I read once that linking inconsistently (with and without www.) affects SEO. I know there’s a lot of self-proclaimed SEO experts out there that’s why I’d like to know the truth.
And to come to think about it, it’s http://www.google.com not google.com.
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It really doesn’t matter. A domain is a domain, and we permanently redirect www. to the non-www, so as far as search engines are concerned, www. doesn’t exist.
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Cool!!
So I need not bother relinking my internal links with .wordpress.com either, right?
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