My REW website just went live and I am working out some of the details of the switchover. Anyway, this came up and I am wondering what you guys think about it. Months ago, I changed my preferred domain name to http:// buyhawkeye .com from http:// www .buyhawkeye .com. Basically, I dropped the www.

It is an option you can select under webmaster tools and used to display your website in the SERPs. It seemed cleaner to me. Since then, all my inbound links have been pointing to my domain (less the www). After going live on REW, my sitemap directs everyone to the domain including the www. This has brought up a question. Do you think this will have any adverse impact on my rankings given that all inbound links go to http:// buyhawkeye .com and the sitemap points to http:// www .buyhawkeye .com?

Oh, for further clarification, in order to get the new sitemap to work properly, I had to change my preference on the webmaster tools to allow for the www.

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David Phillips
A Marietta Real Estate Agent, 678-521-4680
The Georgia Mortgage Broker, 678-370-0190

Just curious, what is the significance of "Hawkeye"? Is this a sub-division you are marketing or are you just a fan of M*A*S*H?

I was a fan of MASH growing up. However, did you take a look at my avatar?

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David Phillips
A Marietta Real Estate Agent, 678-521-4680
The Georgia Mortgage Broker, 678-370-0190

It is best to have everything consistent, across the board.

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I see a military radar plane on your avatar... is that a "Hawkeye"? Sorry, still not getting it

From what I understand, you should pick one way to write the url and stick with it. It really doesn't matter which one you choose but you need to be consistent. Otherwise Google will think you have duplicate content if I'm not mistaken.

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Jason Painter
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PROGRAM Realty, LLC
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Thanks for the input. I have made the change and have been crawled a few times with no adverse results. I am sticking with the www going forward and changing all the other links that I have control over to reflect the change.

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David Phillips
A Marietta Real Estate Agent, 678-521-4680
The Georgia Mortgage Broker, 678-370-0190

Trojan: You got it! That would be the Navy's E-2C Hawkeye and my baby. As I have said in the past, the military pays me for my skills not my creativity. (Plus, Hawkeye Properties was already taken...)

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David Phillips
A Marietta Real Estate Agent, 678-521-4680
The Georgia Mortgage Broker, 678-370-0190

I like Hawkey in the original MASH novel, but not as much in the television show. What's Google?

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I chose the 'www.' prefix just because whenever you get that random, incoming, one-way link it's typically done using the www. Since I can't control those linking to me, it seemed to make sense. Like Jason said, you want things to stay consistent.

My theory anyway (shrugs shoulders)

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