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With or without www wordpress blog

Last updated on February 18, 2017
Posted on February 13, 2011

With or without www wordpress — where to start?

Last year, I have posted a little bit longer videos about what to do after installing wordpress blog. I did not re-watch it, but I still remember I mentioned in the video that in General settings, you should choose to have a- with or without www wordpress blog.

After you are sure which one you would like to have, stick with it, and I suggest you to never change this settings.

Just yesterday, I published an article, which is titled, how to fix 404 error not found in webmaster tools, and also I explained why I got that error.

One of many important reason, I changed my settings in this with or without www wordpress case, from without the prefix to have the prefix.

Let’s break this down..this blog, if you notice, whenever you type : http://blog.web6.org (this is the setting that I had the first day, I installed my blog) in your browser, it will automatically open : https://www.wpvidz.com.

You can test it if you want..this is because I have the www for my homepage and other pages, as well as posts.

If you want to check yours (with or without www wordpress you have), it should be in, “Settings” then “General”. There you should see wordpress and blog’s URL. Check it with or without www wordpress blog you currently have.

With or without www wordpress — webmaster tools preferred settings and htaccess

ATTENTION: htaccess file is really senstive file, do not modify it if you are not sure.

These are the htaccess redirection to have with or without the prefix:

To redirect to the URL with www:

RewriteEngine On
rewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yourdomain.com [NC]
rewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourdomain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

And to redirect without www:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}  ^www.(.+)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^/(.*) http://%1/$1 [L,R=301]

Then after you set with or without www wordpress, the one you want to have, you can set “preferred settings” in Google webmaster tools. I have published a detailed step by step video tutorial in this submitting sitemap to Google post.

with or without www wordpress
preferred settings in Webmaster Tools.

With or without www wordpress — which one is the best?

I can’t answer you this question since I am not 90% or even 100% SEO expert.

However, about with or without www wordpress,  I personally choose with the prefix. I guess it does not really matter which one you should choose.

The important is choose one and go with it, do not change it, if you have to change, change once, and always remember the quality backlinks you already built.

Either you choose www or without www wordpress URL, it has to be landed on the same page.

Because a few Search Engines will treat them as different URL, and the content will be the same. It means it can risk you duplicating content. So, indeed, decide one, with or without www wordpress blog URL.

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Lots of people, including famous and well-known blogs use without prefix and some others prefer with the prefix. If we take a look at Google, for one example, it uses www

And my reason to use www is, because it is the common way of typing a website address, and I use .org domain extension, so using this prefix will help people or search engines to see my blog address as a web address, a World Wide Web, what www stands for.

There is one big advantage that people can take if they choose having blog URL without prefix. The benefit is the URL will become shorter in Search Engine result, and of course it will then display more keywords you are targetting.

How about your blog? With or without www wordpress blog?

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Comments

  1. Derrick T Spruiell says

    February 14, 2011 at 12:17 pm

    Nice and interesting article, thank you for sharing. Please keep on blogging.
    Thanks

  2. Hector Avellaneda says

    February 17, 2011 at 6:54 am

    Hi Kimi

    Great article. I definitely agree with you. I think the prefix is the best way to go. I think most people naturally type www first before the actual site name. I know I do. As you mentioned the only advantage I can think of by not using the prefix is the shortening of the domain. This can help you if you have a long domain name (as I do 🙂 ) and can help you meet search engine character limits.

    This was my first time here Kimi! Great Post!

    • Kimi says

      February 17, 2011 at 6:04 pm

      Hi Hector,

      Welcome to my blog, very nice to see you around!

      Yes, without prefix was shorter, but I still prefer with www, though I have losted my backlinks I have built for months..

      Thanks!

  3. sid says

    March 18, 2011 at 10:25 am

    Thank you Kimi.

    • Kimi says

      March 18, 2011 at 4:15 pm

      Most welcome, Sid!

  4. Imran@shariffdotOrg says

    April 14, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    Hi Kimi,

    well If i am using blog as sub domain then I would not be using www prefix to my blog. I would like to keep more simple eg: blog.xyz.com if blog is my main site I would prefer http://www.xyz.com, I will do this only when my blog is very newly installed, and I would rather not do for a old blog, just because I would end up losing good traffic from searching.

    There are two ways to add www to a new blog. the 1st method is while installation. I would call the url as http://www.xzy.com so that the www prefix automatically added without me changing any setting in admin. and the 2nd option is after installation in setting options and change the urls by adding www prefix.

    however www plays a very vital role and its a very big topic to be discussed.

    -Imran

    • Kimi says

      April 14, 2011 at 7:31 pm

      Yes, It is a very big topic at the moment.

      Best is to decide in the very beginning of setting up a blog as you said, I agree.

      Thanks

      Kimi.

  5. Anders Lund says

    April 22, 2012 at 7:07 pm

    I am trying this htaccess redirection fix (to redirect without www:) on my site but cant get it to work. Do I need to change my settings in WordPress? Under settings both URLs are defined to be without www.

    Hope you can help?

    Anders

    • Kimi says

      April 23, 2012 at 9:14 am

      Hi Anders,

      As far as I know, the redirection should work even if you have different settings in URL setting of the dashboard.

      What I can guess is, “modifying” htaccess file in your server might be disabled by your host for security reasons.

      I would ask your host if it’s true, or you can view file permission of the file itself.

      Be careful with your htaccess as it’s an important file

      Kimi.

  6. Anders Lund says

    April 23, 2012 at 8:32 pm

    Hi Kimi,

    I am able to edit the htacces text on my server. They recommended me trying the htacces text below. It works but the subpages gets a 404 error and now I cant login on my wordpress installation. Goddammit 🙂

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.koereskole-svendborg.dk [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://koereskole-svendborg.dk/$1 [R=301,nc]
    Thanks

    • Kimi says

      April 25, 2012 at 4:47 am

      Hey Anders,

      Have checked your site (again) and it seems it doesn’t work.

      You can alternatively do this redirection via cPanel without editing htaccess (which is easier actually).

      So login to your cpanel, and then look for “redirection” icon, and do it there. (redirect with www to non-www).

      Kimi.

  7. kp says

    December 6, 2013 at 5:32 pm

    Thank you so much. I’ve been on many sites and your instructions helped a lot.

    Thank You

    • Kimi says

      December 9, 2013 at 5:12 pm

      You’re welcome!

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