I post this article as a kind of follow-up to my previous article “Why link to index.php?” which caused some discussion. In “Why link to index.php?” I tried to make clear that there is no need to set your home link to something like index.php. I also said that it is not good to let people decide whether they use your domain with www or without. To have some consistency and control over what URLs to use I suggested to link to the full URL.
Now I realized that linking to the full URL is not very efficient. Although I linked to the full URL, my site was in Google with and without www. That means it is 2 times in there. For instance, a result with www is #3 and another without www #14. Continue reading www or not?