Wonder if problem ranking relates to registrar I'm using

[norrington]

Hi all,

New here but hope someone can help. I have quite a few domains with Godaddy, I do not use their hosting so just change the dns record etc. The problem is none of my websites are showing in Google, those that were have dropped off completely. I have read posts on here about a past problem with Godaddy but that seems to be about 2 years ago. Is there still a problem with Godaddy. I'm not talking about a key position with Google I'm just talking about seeing the pages indexed somewhere. Other sites that I have completed that have domains not registered with Godaddy are fine, they show within 3 - 8 weeks no problem. Any advice here would be great. If I have to change from Godaddy I will if anyone can recommend a decent company

Cheers
Norri

[edited by: Webwork at 7:39 pm (utc) on Nov. 17, 2005]
[edit reason] Please don't discuss hosts [/edit]

[larryhatch]

Hello Norrington: That's an interesting question and I wish I could answer it.

I don't want to hijack the thread, but a wider question might me whether the search engines
look up and/or consider site hosts as part of their, er, quality control.

Anyone have evidence for or against that theory? -Larry

[norrington]

Or if they now look at the ip and cross match domains etc.

Norrington

[larryhatch]

Yeah, they could certainly do that too. But, it doesn't say anything about the registrar.
They could easily do some kind of whois for registrar in any case, if they CHOOSE to. -Larry

[norrington]

So another question then. If you have one site penalised by google do they look at others you host to.

Norri

[norrington]

Ok I think that I may have spotted whats wrong (taken all day searching forums) My website doesn't have a .htaccess file, (bear with me I'm fairly new) So if I type in just mydomain.com it returns the same ie not www.mydomain.com ..... so I uploaded a .htaccess file with the following code,

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain\.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ [mydomain.com...] [R=permanent,L]

Now this worked, when I type mydomain.com it returns www.mydomain.com .... have I got this right and could this be the problem. Also do I need the other code for 301's alongside this please.

Regards
Norri