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		eli on Sept 21, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 6,953 reasons why I still let Google host jQuery f... I've seen people worry that if incoming links are split between foo.com and www.foo.com, it will affect Google's ranking of your site. I don't think this is true and, anyway, the right solution would be to redirect one to the other.

mike-cardwell on Sept 22, 2010 | [–]

Google treats http://www.example.com/foo.html as a different page to http://example.com/foo.html and it is completely right to do so because they could be different pages.

You can use rel="canonical" to get around this, or a http redirect.

alanh on Sept 22, 2010 | [–]

Best practices concerning www, including rel="canonical" and redirects:

http://alanhogan.com/no-www

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