redirection of website url

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One of my websites is in Joomla and I chose not to include the www. before the url as a part of the Joomla settings.

So when I take a look at my site on both url's using seoquake, on the non-www url it shows 1,680 indexed links and on the www.sitename.com version it shows 541 indexed links.

It there really any point into redirecting one to the other? or should I just leave as is and star building links to just one of them?

Do search engines look at a website without the www. in front differently than a site with?

Is there even a point to having the www. in front of a url anymore?

Seems they should just do away with it, kinda is pointless from what I can see.
 


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>Is there really any point into redirecting one to the other? or should I just leave as is and star building links to just one of them?

Having both active is theoretically a duplicate-content issue, so a redirect is the way to fix it.

>Do search engines look at a website without the www. in front differently than a site with?

Search engines treat them as two different websites.

>Is there even a point to having the www. in front of a url anymore?

Not really, you can put almost anything there.

>Seems they should just do away with it, kinda is pointless from what I can see.

They who? It's not "them", it's "you". You control this.
 
Well, Google doesn't bother whether you have www with your website or not. But if you have both websites, that will impact negatively on your website... Your backlinks will split between both the versions and your main version won't get enough boost.

Its better to promote one version either with www or non-www...

You can do this by
- Setting up 301 redirect from one version to main version
- By setting your preferred version in Google webmaster tools
 
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