why http://hubpages.com why not http://www.hubpages.com

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   NewYorkerposted 14 years ago

   Wow.. That's an incredibly dumb question, sorry.. It's the same thing, whether you do the www or not, you end up at the same place.

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      james0211posted 14 years agoin reply to this

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         NewYorkerposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         God, you're hardcore.

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   skyfireposted 14 years ago

   Not a dumb question. It's about 301 redirects which many people don't get it.

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   Hauntyposted 14 years ago

   When you set up a website you have to decide if you want the www to appear in the url or not, one reason being that you want the appearance of your pages in Google search to be consistent.

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   skyfireposted 14 years ago

   James, search for 301 redirects on google. You'll see ow it works. If you have your own site hosted on some host you'll see 301 redirect setting in your control panel where you can set manually whether to allow only www or allow both.

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      james0211posted 14 years agoin reply to this

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         skyfireposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         It is not error. Hubpages staff set the 301 redirect "without www". So that is why we get redirected, maybe HP staff think of it as SEO benefit(i'm not sure about this).

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   Uninvited Writerposted 14 years ago

   It doesn't matter, you get to the same place.

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   sunforgedposted 14 years ago

   www. is kind of redundant

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   Peter Hogganposted 14 years ago

   james0211, hubpages.com is the actual domain, www.hubpages.com is technically a sub-domain of hubpages.com. Either could be used or even uk.hubpages.com if hubpages wanted to regionalise.
   
   The point is, hubpages have elected to use the non www version and have used a 301 redirect to ensure that PageRank and anchor text of inbound links that point to the www version for example are redirected to the non www version.

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      thisisoliposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Perfect answer!
      
      There is no reason to be rude about it though, this is the place for people to ask for help and information.

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   wrenfrost56posted 14 years ago

   I don't think it's a dumb question, I wondered it myself. Thanks for the info.

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      james0211posted 14 years agoin reply to this

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   Hokeyposted 14 years ago

   Good question. Unfortunately I am just a Buddhist poet/musician and no nothing of this.

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    yoshi97posted 14 years ago

    The non-www version is an alias of the other. By allowing the non-www version to have precedence, all of the links appear the same in the address bar, which leads to uniformity. Also, it saves 3 letters in the adress line and the www part is redundant.
    
    I did the same thing with my blog.

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    B.C. BOUTIQUEposted 14 years ago

    yeah, what Yoshi said....

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