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    • Awaraman
      Awaraman last edited by

      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

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      • Martijn_Scheijbeler
        Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

        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.

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        • AymanH
          AymanH @Martijn_Scheijbeler last edited by

          I think the same 🙂

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