www or no www?

[syndicated]

Hello

In your opinion if you are backlinking - is it better to include your www or not?

Cheers

Paul

[elangnet]

For a long domain name, I'd use non-www URL, but for a short name (less than 6 character) I'd rather use www.

[michiganannd]

I always use www with my websites. I see its cooler hehe

[Vilice]

I prefer not to us the www in the backlinking ,because I like simple .

[tb987]

Do you mean is it better to use the URL or keyword rich anchor text?

Or do you mean domain.com or www .domain.com

Tony

[blacksnoopy]

I've had some problems with the sitemap

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It's ok now

[FreewareFreak]

I use www in front of my domains. Seems cleaner.

[Gorkfu]

From the point of view of your visitors, it won't matter much. It won't change the fact that people will type in www or not. However, some people do look in the address bar and they might have a better chance of remembering your site if you don't include www at the beginning.

[Dimitar Christoff]

erm, you should also consider that google used to (and probably still does) see www. and non-www as separate domains with separate ranking. so whichever way you choose to go, be consistent and always rewrite your url via internal links

[BurtyB]

I agree about redirecting to your primary choice, it does annoy me that quite a lot of sites require you to type www_example_com and when you just use example_com you end up seeing an error page or even someone else's website in some cases of shared hosting!

ChrisB.