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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
© Copyright 2006
There’s a tool that a fair few SEO’s use to see how many pages they have indexed, it’s put out by a company called MarketLeap. I’ve been using this tool for reporting purposes, and followed the example, which you entering your website with the www in it. Well today I tried it without the www, and got quite different results… Of course the ‘out of xxx pages’ that Google shows is as unreliable as usual, but here’s an example of the differences that you can see.
Note that www.cnn.com shows 13.8 million pages indexed, while the cnn.com shows over 22 million pages indexed. Why is this? Well it’s because they use both the site: command and the inurl: command, and both of these commands appear to work as basic pattern matches, so if the www is in the query, and it’s not in the results, they don’t get returned. If the www isn’t in the query, then both those with and those without the www get returned. So to answer the question in the title, it appears better not to dub dub dub…
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