301 Redirect question www to root.com

[tgr0ss]

I have a site that has been up for a few weeks now and is currently in a www format and i am considering changing it to just   mydomain.com

I also have quite a few directory listings (including google places/bing) for this site w/ the www. url.

If i do this, change it in my google analytics, and update my wordpress internal page + htaccess file.   Will i lose any of the link juice i had from my www pages?

Would this be something that would be advised since i've registered for many sites, or is there a potential that this could end up hurting me?

Thanks,

[Klarke]

If you do the 301 redirect, it probably will not hurt you.

But why though ?  You already have links pointing to that version of the URL.  It seems unnecessary that you are wanting to change now ?

I actually discovered today one benefit of running www.  If you ever decide that you want to serve cookie-less files on a sub-domain, having a no-www creates problems.

[tgr0ss]

That's kind of what i was thinking, now regarding the sub domain that's a great thing you bring up there.

So would you suggest for a new site i'm working on, doing a sub domain multisite install of wordpress-  I should prob keep the www in tact as well then?