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3 Oct 2003

What happens if someone visits wwe.yoursite.com? Or doesn’t add the www? Will they still find your site? Typos in URLs are common. how many times have you ended up on a site you didn’t expect because you mis-typed the domain name. Your customers are doing the same thing, so you should try to plan for it.

You can register alternate domains if you have a frequently-misspelled name. Google has even registered wwwgoogle.com for people that leave out the dot after www. With domains selling for as little as $8 per year, there’s no excuse not to.

You can also create a wildcard DNS entry that will catch typos in the www portion of your URL. If someone enters ww.kalsey.com, wwww.kalsey.com or even thisdoesnotexist.kalsey.com, they will all get my Web site. Ask your hosting company to set this up for you.

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