Comments on: 9 sites who don't know that www.domain.com ISN'T THE SAME as domain.com

By: Robin Parduez

Robin Parduez — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:54:37 +0000

Interesting analysis Malcolm. Interesting to see we're in 2010 and only two of the sites seem to have fixed their canonical URL issue.

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SEO ROI » Does It Matter If You Use WWW For SEO? (SEO FAQ) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:38:57 +0000

[...] Update: Malcolm Coles has a related article with examples of www vs non www that’s a valuable read on this [...]

By: SEO Doctor

SEO Doctor — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:24:52 +0000

A lot of registrars do not recognize the non-www domain either. I have been using Telivo and want them to 301 redirect the non-www domain, but they just say they don't support this!

By: Jason

Jason — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:33:35 +0000

You can add royalmail.co.uk to that list. Incredibly annoying.

By: Hobo

Hobo — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:23:40 +0000

Pet hate of mine too. Some of the clients we have we dont control the domain suffer the same problem. After weeks of trying, you just give up.....

By: Malcolm Coles

Malcolm Coles — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:43:50 +0000

If it doesn't make you go eugh more, you'd better check out my linked in / 404 post - the opposite happens there. If you add a / you get a horrid error.

By: Piggynap

Piggynap — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:24:03 +0000

Eurgh, this is a pet hate. As are sites that return error messages if you leave the trailing slash off a URL. I always feel like emailing to say "I'm far too lazy to type a '/' each time, so please fix this." It takes all the fun out of guessing URLs.