Forwarding domains

retired_member16 · Aug 28, 2006

I have a domain that was the 'main' domain I had on a spare chuck of webspace at work, everything was going great and it was 1st page listed on all major search engines for a variety of search terms.

The problem began when I moved its location and instead of having a straight forward zonefile CNAME, I forwarded it to another domain - www.domain.com/newdomainfile.

Since then its dropped of the face of the earth. Is there anyway to confgure the site so that its still picked up by the search engines?

tifosi · Aug 28, 2006

if it's on linux then use .htaccess to do either a Redirect 301 or mod_rewrite to force a silent redirect.

Google indexex the 301's better than a standard header/javascript redirect.

Jeewhizz · Aug 29, 2006

what he said

A 301 means 'Permanently Moved' - and as such, google will update it's records as will other crawlers.

http://www.jellyandcustard.com/2006/03/07/301-page-redirects-using-php-and-htaccess/ for advice on how to do it in both PHP and .htaccess

retired_member16 · Aug 29, 2006

Thanks guys.

Ive given it a look and whilst it seems straightforward enough im not sure that im running on the right server to run a 301.

I will investigate!

Jeewhizz · Aug 29, 2006

all webservers can (read: should) issue a 301 header if you set it up right.

What server are you running?

retired_member16 · Aug 29, 2006

Ok, so Ive managed to get it all working. However, the domains are no longer clocked when forwarding from 1 webspace to a folder hanging off another space altogether.

Is there anyway of doing this? Am I stuck with a life of being ommited from the search engine.

abdussamad · Aug 30, 2006

Let me get this straight. You have a domain a.tld which you forwarded to b.tld/some.html and now a.tld is omitted from the search results? If you do a 301 redirect than b.tld/some... will be indexed instead of a.tld. If you want a.tld to be indexed I think you will have to get server space for it instead of redirecting it.

retired_member16 · Aug 30, 2006

abdussamad said:
Let me get this straight. You have a domain a.tld which you forwarded to b.tld/some.html and now a.tld is omitted from the search results? If you do a 301 redirect than b.tld/some... will be indexed instead of a.tld. If you want a.tld to be indexed I think you will have to get server space for it instead of redirecting it.

Thats how its looking. Ive got 19 developed sites though