WWW or NON-WWW on preferred domain name

Together with my blogger friends, HBP and Orgl, we are trying to comprehend how can we make our traffic goes into our preferred domain. In my case, I did index Housewife @ Work with WWW like this, http://www.housewifeatwork.blogspot.com. On the other hand, my blogger account link is http://housewifeatwork.blogspot.com. Not knowing the effect of this coz I am not really a computer geek, I thought it would be fine until I came across a site where my blog’s statistics showed up 2 diagnostics.

Imagine, my traffic including the inbound links broke into 2 between Housewife @ Work with WWW and with NON-WWW. Based on some articles I read, it did affects the page rank of a certain blog and even in my Google Webmaster Tool info indicates that it might have read my blog as 2 separate links.

It is really kind of shocked that this WWW will give me trouble now. So since my blogger account has NON-WWW, I patterned my blog index with it and hoping that next time Google makes it crawling task my blog will be updated and cached in my preferred domain, the NON-WWW Housewife @ Work. Other thing that I keep on searching for is that would it be possible to have 301 redirect inside my blogger account.

Any help, advice, suggestion or clarification on this concern is very much welcome. I just need to maximize my traffic by directing all of it to my preferred NON-WWW domain.

Recommended articles for this concern:

Google Webmaster Tool

Google Webmaster Central Blog

Google gave back my Page Rank - PR3

I was just about to check for an important email around 10am today when I saw in my Google toolbar that Housewife @ Work has a rank. At first, I ignored it coz I thought it was an error just like before. I refreshed the homepage and the rank did appear again. Out of curiosity I decided to check on my Page Rank and to my surprise it was indeed real. I regained my lost PR3.

Last July 6, I lost my Page Rank and since then I seldom got opportunities. Well I guess that was a punishment to me from Google. While busy with my paid posts, I seldom did non-paid posts and after 2 months I lost my beloved Page Rank. Together with hubby, we did some research about Page Rank articles and we found some in Bloggers Review, WebProNews and HighResults to name some.

It is really hard to comprehend the ways and means in getting a Page Rank, which is important to bloggers who are doing paid blogging stuff, but as my friends told me just keep on blogging and it will be given back to me. So that day is today and to Google thanks so much.