[Ajay]

If you would not like to use the www in your website address.

e.g. I use ajaydsouza.com instead of www . ajaydsouza.com and anyone visiting www. gets redirected to the site without the www.

Why would you want to do this? Search engines like Google recognize your site with the www as a different site from that without the www. (Don't believe check your pagerank on a few sites)
As a result, you can be penalized for duplicate content.

Read more at no-www

An easy solution? You can use the code below to remove the www and create a permanent redirect to the site without the www.
Put this code in your .htaccess file.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.domain\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://domain.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Remember to change domain.com with your own url.

[HeadShock]

thanks for the information.

[robert]

Great info. The "Thanks" and "Grown" options are great for those type of responses ;)

[Ajay]

Originally Posted by robert

Great info. The "Thanks" and "Grown" options are great for those type of responses ;)

Felt so too. Have deleted my post :)

[Life Xpect]

LOL.. nice info, but unfortunately my results don't show up much on those search engines so maybe can't use it so much.. but still .. its some nice info :)

[Ajay]

Originally Posted by Life Xpect

LOL.. nice info, but unfortunately my results don't show up much on those search engines so maybe can't use it so much.. but still .. its some nice info :)

This has nothing to do with your results showing up or not. Well, you can always add more content to your site.

Ofcourse, to do this, you need access to the .htaccess file

[mann3r]

Originally Posted by Ajay

As a result, you can be penalized for duplicate content.

I know duplicate content is being penalized but how sure you are the with and without www is s different thing? those are just tools, but what is the google saying?

[paul411]

My Wordpress MU installation removes the www by default, so I dont have to worry

[Ajay]

Originally Posted by mann3r

I know duplicate content is being penalized but how sure you are the with and without www is s different thing? those are just tools, but what is the google saying?

Try checking the pagerank of your sites with the www and without the www. You will notice a difference.

I had a 3 without the www and a 5 with the www.

Also, some sites like SilkTide.com which give you a rating based on many factors also finds the difference.

[mozza]

Good advice! It's better for the Page Ranking if there's only one. Either with www or without www. Better for the visitors too! However, maybe it's because i'm all used to the url with www, i removed the no-www for my websites with another .htaccess config