Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone! We at Xavier Media hope to see you all soon again after the holidays and we’re planning some new cool services for you all during 2008 so keep visiting our sites.

You have still time to join our contest in our blog where you can win free advertising credits from EntreCards. Check out the Xavier Media Blog for more information on that.

You also got a few days to get your own domain names at discounted prices from eXavier.com. So if you got the time and want to save a few bucks, check it out.

/Andreas

bLaugh.com is a cartoon site I visit sometimes. Unfortunately they haven’t updated their blog in a while (since November ). Anyway here’s a funny comic about blogging for your company (employer). Let’s just hope Xavier Media will let me continue to blog .

With or without www is simply one of the biggest questions you need to ask yourself when starting a new site, but unfortunately most people simply forget to decide.

First of all we need to talk about why it’s important to decide on with or without. One of the reasons is the search engines. Links to sampleaddress.com and www.sampleaddress.com are counted as links to two different sites by search engines which will impact negatively on your SERP. Instead of finding 20 links to www.sampleaddress.com search engiens may find 10 links to www.sampleaddress.com and 10 links to sampleaddress.com.

One other reason is branding. How would you like your visitors to remember your site? At XavierMedia.com we’re using www, but at our new site adv.erti.se we’re not (you can still type www.adv.erti.se and it will work).

If you’re using www you should remember that sometimes visitors type a few w too much or too little. So if you’re using you should make sure that w.sampleaddress.com, ww.sampleaddress.com and wwww.sampleaddress.com will work too as a service to your visitors.

If you have a really popular site you may even consider to register wwwsampleaddress.com just to be on the safe side (www.sampleaddress.com without the dot).

Are you using www for your sites?

/Andreas