SO, my problem is this: I signed up with angelfire when I was first developing my site last month. I sprang for the "no ads" version, with extra bandwith and storage. But the URL is really, REALLY ugly. I then registered, via a different company, a lovely and much more appropriate URL. I currently have that URL sending people to my horrible Angelfire URL, but if I keep it masked, does that mean that spiders can't see my whole site because it only has one URL the whole time?
I don't know what to do, should I manually transfer every page to my NEW url place, and get web hosting THERE and cancel my angelfire account? Or is not a big deal to have them redirect it, and I should just not worry about the URLs not matching?
And FINALLY (sorry!), when I have people link me, should I have them linking "www.goodurl.com", even though it will just redirect, or should I have them link "www.horrible.com/bad/Idon'tknowwhatI'mdoing/3982745893.html"? Thanks!
should I manually transfer every page to my NEW url place, and get web hosting THERE and cancel my angelfire account?
if your site gets more and more professional, i would switch over to a hosting where the domain is. i don't know angelfire in detail, but maybe you can even do it the other way round and transfer the domain to angelfire.
[...]but if I keep it masked, does that mean that spiders can't see my whole site because it only has one URL the whole time?
that's only for the humanbeings. in fact, the url displayed in the browser is not the url of the page, so this won't get indexed with 'your domain'. it's made with a frameset and is a cheap trick only.
if you want to get your pages with your domain indexed, the domain should directly point to your webspace and that's it.
if you can avoid redirects, then do so.
-hakre
