I might make this a regular thing if I can think of some sensible questions, as it’ll help me gauge if my opinions are in tune with everyone else’s , or whether I’m just swimming against the tide…
My last poll on full feed RSS versus partial came down as 86% in favour of full feeds, which I think vindicates the stance of giving your readers the full post: If it’s good enough they’ll read, subscribe and keep visiting, whereas I think partial feeds can encourage people to unsubscribe from your feeds and then forget about you.
This week’s poll: I recently posted about the 301 re-direct and why you should do it to ensure Google counts ALL of your inbound links towards your pagerank. The question is do you prefer your blog’s url to be ‘www’ or ‘non-www’ as Blog-Op is.
It doesn’t matter which one you use, as long as you choose one only, but I’m interested to see if people prefer the old fashioned, not strictly correct ‘www’, or whether you’re all hip and Web 2.0 like me 
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9 users commented in " The Sunday Poll - WWW or non-WWW? "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI would prefer www ….reason because thats what is stuffed into the world mind they just type www in any case then why not.If you are worried about inbound and all…follow the rules of the game peoperly, google will give the love to you
True, although as long as the re-direct is in place, what they type in won’t matter. More importantly, what they choose to link to, won’t affect your pagerank!
LOL I just recently figured out what Web 2.0 was talking about in the first place.
Obviously I am stuck in Web 1.0!
Although I understand the implications, I still don’t care too much about this kind of stuff (maybe I should).
If you didn’t provide the third option I probably would have went for the first one, for the same reason that Ashish has mentioned above.
The key thing WMA, is that you do the re-direct, if you care about your PR. If you don’t, it doesn’t matter.
As I explained in my previous article, Blog-Op without the WWW is PR 4, whereas Blog-Op WITH the WWW is PR 2.
The links going towards that PR2 are NOT being counted towards making the whole site a PR5.
Even Digg have made that mistake as Seomoz posted the other day.
Using a redirect is such a simple fix I can’t see why not to use it. Every little thing you do helps and this helps more than a lot of other things that people do to optimize their site. Why would you in essence want your back links pointing to two different sites?
Totally agree. It takes seconds, no readers will notice, but Google certainly will…
Ok, you convinced me and I did it. I think I need to pay more attention to this kind of stuff from now on…
Btw, I did it through google webmaster tools, without touching the .htaccess file
Cool, which did you choose?
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