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Web addresses can optionally start with www. at the beginning. So for example www.bbc.co.uk can be found if you go to bbc.co.uk
With PagePlay we give you the choice, but whether you select with or without www, your visitors always get to the page they're looking for.
When the internet was born it was standard that people would start their site url with www, but as time has gone on, people have begun to drop the www from the start of their domains and now there is mixed opinion on whether to use www or not.
The fact is, it isn't required and it boils down to personal choice. Here are the pros and cons of www:
Pro - People often link to the www version of any site and this has minor search engine optimisation benefit.
Con - It is time consuming to say www every time you tell someone your sites url
Con - It increases the length of your site pages urls for print media
Want to know more about how PagePlay deal with www?:
If a site is set to use www, all requests for the none www versions of pages will be redirected [tech bit: using a 301 redirect] to the www version.
eg: A request for http://pageplay.com would be sent http://www.pageplay.com and http://pageplay.com/page-title to http://www.pageplay.com/page-title
The opposite is true is you choose to drop the www.
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