WWW or not WWW, what to choose as primary site name?
domain-name
Solution
It doesn't matter which you choose but you should pick one and be consistent. It is more a matter of style but it is important to note that search engines consider these two URLs to be different sites:
`http://www.example.com` `http://example.com`
So whichever you choose for aesthetic reasons should be consistently used for SEO reasons.
Edit: My personal opinion is to forgo the `www` as it feels archaic to me. I also like shorter URLs. If it were up to me I would redirect all traffic from `www.example.com` to `example.com`.
Problem
From technical perspective the only issue is traffic and incoming links (one of them should redirect to another). Now I need to choose which one should be primary. Some sites have www (google, microsoft, ruby-lang) and some without www (stackoverflow, github). Seems to me the newer do not use WWW. What to choose? Please with some explanations. UPDATE: This is programming related question. Actually site is for programmers, so I expect to see what techy people think. UPDATE: Site without WWW is clear winner. Thank you guys!