Emmett - 2:39 am on Mar 16, 2005 (gmt 0)

If it doesn't return a 404, gbot won't remove it.

It doesn't return a 404 now but it does point to their site instead of mine. I assume thats ok?

On a related note:
I found another (maybe only) source of my duplicate content penalty. In attempting to 301 redirect my ip address (left over from old setup) to the www site I was using the following code which google never seemed to understand (names changed and spaces added to protect the innocent):

Redirect 301 / http: //www. mysite. com/

I then changed it to (ip changed):
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^123.45.678.9:69
RewriteRule (.*) http: //www. mysite. com$1 [R=301,L]

This redirected the browser from my ip address just fine and I didn't think anything of it until I put it through the WebmasterWorld Server Header Checker which was returning 200 OK!

So now I updated it to the following:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}!^.* mysite \.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http: //www. mysite. com$1 [R=301,L]

The last entry seems to be returning the proper 301 redirect.

Just thought I would post this for anyone else having a split site problem. Given that 1 dupe offense = 30 day penalty, 2nd offense = 60 day and 3rd = 90 day, I don't expect to see my site listed in google for a long while :(