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Great that was what i thought also which means I am learning!

The 1500 links are coming from another site owned by the company and I was going to say that the Linking Root domains are higher on the www site so I would probably go with that.  However, I just check the Full List of Link Metrics and it shows :

www.mydummysite.com

Moz Rank 3.86

Moz Trust 5.59

mydummysite.com

Moz Rank 4.49

Moz Trust 5.68

Am i therefore correct in saying that mydummysite.com would be the better one to go with?

Sorry for the silly quesions, your help is appreciated. Its nearly 12pm here I should go to bed!

Thanks for reply Ryan.

That helps a lot.

Am i correct in saying that I should select the site with 1500 links? Seems like an obvious question.

I guess I am really trying to work out whether my current site rank and position can be improved on with a simple change and understanding the stats.

Hi Guys,

New guy here with some questions regarding the difference between www and non www.

I am helping with a site at the moment and gradually working my way through bits and learning all the time.  I was watching one of the seomoz videos and it brought my attention back to www vs non www.

I understand that google will treat these as two seperate sites but wanted to check what the stats are telling me.

I was under the impression that www.mydummysite.com was getting most links etc as this is what I have always used.  However when I used Opensite explorer it told me something different as follows:

www.mydummysite.com

32/100     29/100     5     16

mydummysite.com

32/100     29/100     2     1,500

Am i correct in saying that i should be adding a redirect from www.mydummysite.com to mydummysite.com ????  I am thinking that this is telling me that I am potentially missing out on 1,500 links to my site but it could mean I am missing out on just 16.  Eitherway I guess its something I should fix right?

Do I just redirect that page or would all pages beneith it such as mydummysite.com/news also need redirect???

Can i use Canonical Rel links for this now?

Thanks for taking the time to read and reply!