Is it needed to use http:// or not?

[Awaraman]

Hi,

When doing link building and getting my URL to other websites, is it necessary that the other websites include http:// before the domain? Example: I want to increase the number of links to my site www.example.com . When I ask other websites to add a link to my site, should I ask them to use http://www.example.com or is www.example.com enough (without http://)? Or it really does not matter?

Thanks in advance,

Sam

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Hi Sam,

Just to be honest, it really doesn't matter. These factors are so really really small that it would never make a real difference when trying to rank for a certain page. As both URLs will point in the same direction you can really forget about this one.

[AymanH]

I think the same