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I'm confused about canonical issue. I've setup in .htaccess to redirect the URLs without www to www.
Now the URLs in this link in http://www.example.com/sitemap are all without www. Is this going to affect anything?
Will http://www.example.com and http://indiacustomercare.com be considered same or different?
If you'd properly set redirect 301 from .htaccess, robots will know your preferred URL starts with www and they will index it using www because redirect 301 indicates no-www is removed permanently.
Additionaly You can tell Googlebot www is your preferred URL, login into Google Webmaster Tools go to Site configuration -> settings and select Display URLs as www.example.com
If you are going to use absolute URLs in your internal links it will be better to be consistent with your preferred domain. If you don't want to bother about inserting http://www.example.com/ in your links' href then don't include protocol and domain there, just set your links as href="/folder/page.ext". In this way the links will be appended to your domain and bots will see them as http://www.example.com/folder/page.ext
