Prevalence of http://* Domains in External Links
This morning on the bus I was curious as to the differences in incoming traffic from external links using the traditional http://www.* domain against the alternative http://* address.
I have used three small sites in this test sample, one active domain - michaelvisser.com.au - and two dormants; doubleplusminus.com and 2xexposure.com.
Before looking into the data I expect the difference across all three domains to be somewhere near 70/30 leaning towards higher use of http://www.* domains.
After setting my preferred domain within Google Webmaster Tools I have 196 external links pointing to http://www.michaelvisser.com.au and no link from http://michaelvisser.com.au. Experiment end.
I’m at a loss to resolve this issue, can the un-competing domain be 301′d to the main one?
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This article was written on 2007-02-08 at 20:26:45+0000, filed under Uncategorized and tagged Search Engine Marketing.
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Michael Visser is the founder of Visser Labs. He works as a professional Front-end Web Developer, loves Wordpress, Joomla and helping people get more out of their sites.
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Perhaps a visit to http://no-www.org/ will help. There are a quick few lines you can add to the .htaccess file that will ‘redirect’ your users.
Comment by D — February 15, 2007 @ 7:08 am