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12 responses to Pagerank splitting

• In the Google Webmaster Central, you can specifiy which version you prefer (www or no www). I think this would have the same effect as the htaccess code, at least in Google.

  Michiel said on March 7th, 2007.

• Thanks for that one Michiel, but I like to do it hard-url-ed… other search engines but also visitors don’t get confused.

  Arjan Eising said on March 10th, 2007.

• This is a problem for a large portion of websites. Google’s tool is certainly a step in the right direction, but the whole problem is a deeper canonicalization problem thats going to be with us for quite a while.

  The whole “www” thing should be removed as its redundant anyway :)

  Andy Lineas said on March 22nd, 2007.

• Indeed! A few days ago, when somebody was watching while I was browsing, that person said ’shouldn’t you type www before it?’…

  Arjan Eising said on March 22nd, 2007.

• The point is that Google sees every subdomain as a different site. The advantage of using different subdomains is that are usually indexed faster, but the drawback is that your PR is split between a few “sites”.

  Erik-Jan said on March 29th, 2007.

• I didn’t know Google crawls faster when you use subdomains… however, I don’t use them often.

  Arjan Eising said on March 29th, 2007.

• Thanks for the handy tip Arjan, I’m using it now on my website :) We had a big problem with PR splitting before implementing this fix.

  Zappers in Canada said on July 15th, 2007.

• thanks! perfect!

  lee said on November 8th, 2007.

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