Redirected site

How does Google handle redirected sites?

[Arjen]

I am using a redirection service for my website. The site is located at a free webspace provider. I registered a nice domain name and users to that domain name are redirected to the real URL.

I am not sure how Google handles this.

I now seem to have 2 listings in the serp on some keywords. But the 'registered domain name site' is ranked higher than the real url, when I do a search for the title. And only the real url has a title.

If someone could explain redirection services and what Google does with them to me I would be very grateful.

Arjen

[Torben Lundsgaard]

Hi Arjen, Welcome to Webmaster World [webmasterworld.com]

First of all there severel different ways of redirecting and Google behaves diffent in every case. The most common ways of redirecting a domin to a free website are:

100% frame - Google will try to index the content in the frame and both domains will be indexed
javascript - Google can't pass JavaScript and will not follow the redirect. The real URL will not be indexed.
meta refresh - Google will follow the redirect and only the landing page (real) URL will be indexed.
server side redirect - Google will follow the redirect and only the landing page (real) URL will be indexed

If you have bought a nice domain with good keywords that in it self will get you a good ranking (all thing beeing equal).

Fre hosting isn't a good solution. I recommend that you look in to shared hosting. It's not that expensive.