URLs: No WWW or Yes WWW?
Personally, I don’t use the www when visiting websites, chiefly because I’m a lazy typer. This has led to several encounters with “Server not found” errors, because some sites need to have that www in their addresses (one example of which is the UP Diliman website).
Ia, our guest writer of several days past, has written about the www issue in our Go-Ogle! Isulong SEOPH blog. She writes:
In order to market your URL properly it has got to be memorable; that’s one of the basic things to consider when choosing a domain name…So if you’re all for convenience, stripping the WWW out should seem logical. It’s basic knowledge that the more things you throw at a person, the more difficult it is to remember.
Read her complete post here.
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September 20th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
Try that on a Mac! Apparently, majority of Mac OS X browsers allow you to omit http://www. Heck, it can even omit .com.
September 24th, 2006 at 9:09 pm
You can omit both WWW and COM on Firefox. It proceeds to the top 1 result on Google, I believe, or if you set a keyword in your bookmarks, it will choose that one.
September 25th, 2006 at 2:03 pm
Oh, when will I be able to own a Mac? Hehe, I learn something new every day. As they say in Tagalog, marami pa akong kakaining bigas
October 1st, 2006 at 9:46 am
omitting .com is dangerous.
anyway, wanted to say the most notable site i know that still requires www is mb.com.ph
October 3rd, 2006 at 5:02 am
@Gary
Sadly, I guess almost all .com.ph sites requires http://www. It seems that “com” is a domain, “ph” just a ccTLD, and “domain” seems just to be a subdomain. Maybe it’s just me though.