Search Engines and CNAMES

How do search engines treat CNAMES and ANAMES

[nozdam]

Hi,

I have a domain say [blah.net...]

Now i have many CNAMES with "A" records lets say [cname.blah.net....] I want that the CNAME "cname.blah.net" gets indexed as "blah.net" as that is my homepage. The "cname.blah.net" has executables in it that lets say load banner images and are put up on different websites.

So can i take advantage of Google's page rank program coz, if a lot of websites link to "cname.blah.net", can they indirectly link to "blah.net" for Indexing purposes??

Any help on how this can be done will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Nozer

[edited by: nozdam at 3:36 pm (utc) on Aug. 29, 2002]

[ikbenhet1]

if you're asking:

will clicks.blah.net pass (more) pr to blah.net if many site link to clicks.blah.net? (assuming clicks.blah.netwhich has a link to blah.net)

then the answer would be:
If they are banned or pr0'd for spamming , NO.

If they link through a redirect to clicks.blah.net (script or meta), NO. (not sure for the meta, i use the script)

If they're are 'good' sites with 'normal' pr's you will get some, yes.

But why not build a good content site people link to itself? Why trick google? it's your friend.

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[nozdam]

I am not trying to trick google in any way. All i am trying to do is get some PR for my homepage thru my other CNAME because my other CNAME is used more.

There is content on the homepage and very good content at that.

Now all i am looking for, is a way to help my homepage get more PR from my CNAMES. My question is, Is there a way to do that?

Does my Cname page get more PR, if it has links to it and if so, is there a way to transfer the PR to the homepage?

Another question, if my links are in the form <SCRIPT src="http://cname.blah.net"></script> and then a <noscript>http://whatver.com</noscript> which one will be indexed?

Thanks,

Nozer

[Hemsell]

it is a subdomain.
could be a in CNAME
or could be IN A

www. IN A 255.255.255.1
site1. in A 255.255.255.2

Cname is more like an alias

when you say use your cname from another domain...
from another namespace?

Trying to help but a little confused,

Todd

[nozdam]

It is more like an ANAME. It is on the same namespace. Lets say one is blah.com the other is xxx.blah.com

So how would it work in the case of an ANAME?

Nozer

[Hemsell]

Not sure of the question really but let me make a few obsertvations.
If they are incorrect I am sure I will quickly be lambasted here so I will speculate a little.

First off Google ranks PAGES, not DOMAINS
so if you had:
blah.site.com
foo.site.com
foobar.site.com
foo.bar.com

All pointing to site.com/index.htm
then the page index.htm would inherit the PR as any other page would.

there is a blog.com or blogspot.com something like that where the bloggers each get a subdomain.
the main url is a nine and the subdoamins range from 0 to 7 as far as I could tell.
all the subdomains are linked back to the main url with a good link and all the other links you are able to create on it are like redirects. So the host does not lose pr to external sites.
I am sure that there are alot of incoming links on some of those blogs though.

As a side note I really dislike that term blog.

As far as the DNS goes you just need to put A records in for the subdomains.

for these:
blah.site.com
foo.site.com
foobar.site.com
foo.bar.com

it would be:
site.com. 435600 IN SOA ns1.YourNS.net.
site.com. 435600 IN A 255.255.255.1
site.com. 435600 IN NS ns1.site.net.
site.com. 435600 IN NS ns1.secondary.com.
site.com. 435600 IN NS ns2.secondary.com.
site.com. 435600 IN MX10 ns1.site.net.
www.site.com. 435600 IN A 255.255.255.1
blah.site.com 435600 IN A 255.255.255.1
foo.site.com 435600 IN A 255.255.255.1
foobar.site.com 435600 IN A 255.255.255.1
foo.bar.site.com 435600 IN A 255.255.255.1
site.com. 435600 IN SOA ns1.YourNS.net. administrator.site.net. 21 43200 3600 2592000 435600

"More or Less"
Assuming they are all on the same host and using host headers.

Todd