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deciated IP address instead of www.mydomian.com

Just noticed that my IP address is showing up in Google searches

watercrazed

9:48 pm on Jun 3, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I recently switched from a shared ip to a deciated IP and noticed that for some searches the ip address is being indexed and returned before my www. page in some cases. I am concerned that this will result in a duplicate content issue. Any recommendations?

I am on a shared host with windows server and an h-sphere panel.

webdoctor

10:24 am on June 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Any recommendations?

It sounds like your content is accessible using your ip addresss directly. This is not the right thing to do. If a visitor enters

http:// 0.1.2.3/foo

then you should redirect them (preferably with a '301 Moved Permanently' header) to your correct address at

http://www.example.com/foo

rather than just serving the content. Talk to your server administrator to get this set up right.

abacuss

11:02 am on June 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Do a 301 Permanent Redirection to avoid split of PR as well as you would be in the safe hands of Google.

classifieds

12:13 pm on June 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I had a similar situation last year. When you changed servers your host most likely did not remove your old account.

You need to do a couple of things immediately.

1. Make sure the shared account has been completely removed and verify it by following the IP domain name URLs in the index.

2. Submit a URL removal request using the IP as the domain name [128.1.1.1...] & [128.1.1.1...] to:

[services.google.com:8882...]

Good luck!

tiori

12:48 pm on June 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

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Do a 301 Permanent Redirection to avoid split of PR as well as you would be in the safe hands of Google.

What is the syntax for this 301 redirect?

ronburk

9:21 pm on June 6, 2006 (gmt 0)

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I am on a shared host with windows server

Well, I don't know that I would go willy-nilly issuing redirects if I was sharing an IP address with other domains -- how do you know which domain the request was for. OTOH, I guess it won't hurt for you to redirect. If the server is configured correctly, you'll probably never actually get any such requests; if it's not, then there's already a mess and you're not making it that much worse.

It occurs to me that I don't know why Google is willing to list bogus domain names such as this.