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alezimolo

6:03 pm on Feb 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I have a question, I have registred a new domain and let it redirect to my old one ,in the url adres bar you see the new one, but all the content is still on the old one, is it not a problem for my google account, which is still on the old one then?

Please help, thank you in advance...

labeler2003

6:11 pm on Feb 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

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I do this with a number of the domains I manage. For example, I manage a web site for a nonprofit that has a .org name. They have the same name as .com, plus other variations. I also manage some commercial web sites and do the same thing with them. In each case all the variations are set to mirror the main web site. They've been set this way for years, with no problems in Google, or any other search engine.

alezimolo

6:13 pm on Feb 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Thank you for your help!

trader

6:15 pm on Feb 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Do you mean "masked forwarding' aka 'masked redirection' aka "alias domain pointing"

That is where the url shown in the browser address bar window is the domain name which has redirected to another site, not the active websites url.

Which is best from the standpoint of SE ranking and indexing, masked redirect or regular redirect? Is there any difference in G for example indexing the redirected from domain?

[edited by: trader at 6:18 pm (utc) on Feb. 9, 2005]

PatrickDeese

6:17 pm on Feb 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

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What you are describing is usually accomplished with a 100% frameset - you type in newdomain.com and it loads olddomain.com, but you see newdomain.com in the address bar.

Problem 1: Google and other bots will most likely continue to recognize the old domain.

Problem 2: No one will be able to bookmark individual pages from newdomain.com - they can only bookmark the top of the site.

You probably should use a server side 301 redirect from old to new - except with the problems with new sites entering the Google SERPs - I would seriously reconsider changing your domain name at this time.

trader

6:22 pm on Feb 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Thanks but you misunderstood. Also do not care about bookmarks or content indexing since we only want the active site bookmarked, and the masked domain to be listed in the SE.

Referring to doing that with hundreds of domains where we want to redirect to other related active web-sites but the websurfer or visitor will think the domain has its own website due to the address bar showing the domain name, not the website url.

That is a lot easier and cheaper than creating hundreds of new sites for each unused domain but still gets type-in traffic.

alezimolo

6:34 pm on Feb 9, 2005 (gmt 0)

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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>blablabla</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET SIZE="100%,*">
<FRAME SRC="old_domain">
</FRAME>
</FRAMESET>
<BODY>
<A HREF="old_domain">Nonframes</A>
</BODY>
</HTML>

this code is in the new domain name, will I have problem with this?
Als do I have to add keywords + title on the new one?

Or is it better to change my account by google?

Thanks for help

trader

6:24 am on Feb 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

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Alex, What does that code do?

Where is the code installed? What should the file name be, index.html?