Hi, SEO question here:

I'm trying to understand this, perhaps there is someone who it makes more sense to than me.

If I check my URL without the "www" I get this:

Array
(
[0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[1] => Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:59:14 GMT
[2] => Server: Apache
[3] => X-Pingback: http://mattlowenmusic.com/wordpress/xmlrpc.php
[4] => X-Powered-By: W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4
[5] => Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
[6] => Connection: close
[7] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
)
Array
(
[0] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[Date] => Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:59:17 GMT
[Server] => Apache
[X-Pingback] => http://mattlowenmusic.com/wordpress/xmlrpc.php
[X-Powered-By] => W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4
[Vary] => Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
[Connection] => close
[Content-Type] => text/html; charset=UTF-8
)

If I check my URL with the "www." in front of it, I get this:

Array
(
[0] => HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
[1] => Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:56:06 GMT
[2] => Server: Apache
[3] => X-Pingback: http://mattlowenmusic.com/wordpress/xmlrpc.php
[4] => X-Powered-By: W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4
[5] => Location: http://mattlowenmusic.com/
[6] => Vary: User-Agent,Accept-Encoding
[7] => Content-Length: 0
[8] => Connection: close
[9] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
[10] => HTTP/1.1 200 OK
[11] => Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:56:07 GMT
[12] => Server: Apache
[13] => X-Pingback: http://mattlowenmusic.com/wordpress/xmlrpc.php
[14] => X-Powered-By: W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4
[15] => Vary: Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
[16] => Connection: close
[17] => Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
)
Array
(
[0] => HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
[Date] => Array
(
[0] => Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:56:10 GMT
[1] => Tue, 18 Sep 2012 04:56:11 GMT
)

[Server] => Array
(
[0] => Apache
[1] => Apache
)

[X-Pingback] => Array
(
[0] => http://mattlowenmusic.com/wordpress/xmlrpc.php
[1] => http://mattlowenmusic.com/wordpress/xmlrpc.php
)

[X-Powered-By] => Array
(
[0] => W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4
[1] => W3 Total Cache/0.9.2.4
)

[Location] => http://mattlowenmusic.com/
[Vary] => Array
(
[0] => User-Agent,Accept-Encoding
[1] => Accept-Encoding,User-Agent
)

[Content-Length] => 0
[Connection] => Array
(
[0] => close
[1] => close
)

[Content-Type] => Array
(
[0] => text/html; charset=UTF-8
[1] => text/html; charset=UTF-8
)

 

Now, it appears as if there is a 301 redirect set up to take my "www" link to the "non-www" link already. I never set this up myself, but if it's there, that's fine. I'm just concerned about the impact this will have. I'm pretty sure that I have been setting up all my links as http://www.xxxxx.com. If my site has been redirecting those to links without that www, is it going to effect my SEO ranking very much?

My site doesn't have that much content on it, so I could probably remove the "www" from my permalinks, etc. in a couple of hours. Any SEO experts have advice? Should I change the links and start linking without the "www", leave the links as they are and start leaving out the "www" or just keep the "www"? I'm not doing major SEO on this website or anything, but I'd like it to be optimized as possible.

Any help would be infinitely appreciated. Thanks,

matt