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I have a question about link popularity.

First with the link popularity checker that I access on this site, it says my site has 172 total incoming links. But when I check again with out using the www. it says I have only a total of 3. What is up with this?

Also should i use the www. when I'm adding my site to directories and which format does the search engines prefer http://www.yousitename.com or http://yoursitename.com ?

Also how often does link popularity get updated?

Thanks for the help!

the question is 'what is your preferred link' to your site?

if you prefer the w/ www link,, you always have to add the www when building links... then if not, you have to remove it....

Always add www when you building link via directory submission, article submission etc

I always use the www as well.

Always better to put www. as it will save some micoseconds for manipulating your site into www version

Put www. when you are doing link building use url with www.

I use always www for links and to be sure that does not happen any misunderstanding this is my line into .htaccess to redirect non www to www

It's better to use always the www. A domain name with www is different from a domain without www.

x3mario wrote:It's better to use always the www. A domain name with www is different from a domain without www.

Same here dude I also prefer a site with www.

Thanks for this info. I was always confused about this, so during my link building campaigns I have been doing some submission with the "www" and some without. Will include it always from now on.

I'm much in favor to use 301 to redirect bought with www and without.

From google webmasters tool you can set which term that you prefer to be used in google. You can change it to use with "www" or without "www".

I follow the standards. I think using “www” is the internet standard for domains and subdomains. That's what I use all the time.