Domain name redirection and search engines

[iddie]

I have a website which is redirected to my webspace and google only lists the paid for URL and no title or description. If I was to get my website professionally hosted would google see my homepage as the page directly linked to my paid for URL? i.e. not a redirection page to my web space.

Hope that makes sence,

iddie

[edited by: tedster at 1:20 am (utc) on June 5, 2005]
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[tedster]

Hello iddie, and welcome to the forums. First, I want to make sure I understand the situation. Here's the way I understand your question.

1. You have some free webspace from your ISP
2. You bought a domain name and have had it redirected to your free space.
3. Your free space can also be accessed with a different url, and that different url is what the search engines are showing.

If that's correct, then the issue may well be the method of redirection being used, plus the fact that your content existed at the other address before you bought the new domain name.

Yes, in that situation, having some full hosting for the domain should sort everything out. You should put your content on the host server for your domain and remove it from the other web space.

[Glamba]

Yes, in that situation, having some full hosting for the domain should sort everything out. You should put your content on the host server for your domain and remove it from the other web space.

Depending on you budged and the type of redirection used you might simply create a new directory in your old web space, move the old content into the new dir and add redirects from your old webspace to the new domain name.

Make sure that there is no link between the old and 'new' webspace files.