Inbound links and canonical url question

[Ronnie55]

Warning, this question is about as n00b as it gets.

let's say my site is http://fake-example-url.com

I was browsing my links in ahrefs and noticed that the "www" version of my URL (http://www.fake-example-url.com) has a few very high quality do-follow links pointing to it.

A few are from author bios and other things on sites I've been recognized for contributing to. But very reputable sites.

Is this linkjuice being passed to the my main site (without "www")? Is it being considered a part of my link profile?

I'm working on getting more do-follow links so these would be important for me. I've even thought of emailing the editors of these sites asking for the link to be changed to exclude www.

Or should I just forget it?

 

[Member8200]

Not an expert guru backlinker bro but I have my 2 cents here. Its normal for a site to have links to http://yourmegasite.com and http://www.yourmegasite.com and it will really look unnatural for google if you have all the link pointing on 1 direction and 0 on the other one.

Getting those links from the www version is a good idea if you are planning on ranking, but make sure to replace them with a few links as big highend super sites have links on both the http and the www versions

 

[JohnnyPlan]

I'd say that it does not matter if people link to fake-example-url.com with or without www if you don't make them appear as two separate websites. www is a reserved subdomain; so, you just have to redirect www to non www with 301 redirects and the link juice will be passed to the main site without www.
You can add the two sites' version to Google also using Google Webmaster Tools and select the one you'd like to index.