CodeGeronimo

Hi what are the advantages of removing www I can't make it up out of your article.

shaniqus

well... i've read that google really doesn't want/lke us removing the www....

Daemoen

I have actually had a discussion based on this topic with many of my fellow engineers and was surprised by how foolish I was. What would make someone assume that the parent domain would have to be the webserver? WWW implies: world wide web. So rather than being lazy and not understanding that servers have different roles, why not simply add a rewrite url for apache to direct blah.com to www.blah.com and use www as it was meant to be used.

IonSaliu1

Interesting what you say about removing www from domain name. But it does NOT make sense! In 2007, I set preferred domain to saliu.com in Google Webmaster Tools. I think I noticed a DROP in PR for most pages at my www.saliu.com site. I reset the preferred domain back to www and I think the result was positive! What gives? Why do you think that removing WWW is the prefrred choice for domain name? In your example above you just show the three choices at Google Webmaster Tools, but you don't mark what choice! Is 'Don't set an association' the best choice for a webmaster? Ion Saliu