SEO Dictionary

However, technically speaking they are different URLs  A web server could return completely different content for all the urls above. To help search engines pick the best URL out of many, webmasters need to follow consistent link structures in the websites. 

Google picks up the url that a webmaster wants and use that url consistently throughout their site. For example, don’t make half of your links go to http://seodictionary.net/ and the other half go to http://www.seodictionary.net/ . Instead,  a webmaster should pick the url they prefer and always use that format for the internal links of their website.

If a webmaster decides that their preferred URL would be http://www.seodictionary.net/., they should design their webserver such that if a visitor requests http://seodictionary.net/, it does a 301 (permanent) redirect to http://www.seodictionary.net/. Thisway, search engines can pick up the URL a webmaster wants them to.

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