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Parked domains turn into 'domain aliases' - reconsideration request?

         

HRoth

12:41 am on Dec 10, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Three weeks ago I bought a couple of domains for future use and parked them with my webhost. Today doing a search for how I was showing for a keyword, I saw that it brought up not only my site but both of the new domains in separate results with identical content. It was only after poking around in my netadmin area for a while that I was able to find them listed as "domain aliases," a term I had never heard of until today. I tried to delete them on the interface and nothing happened. I did site searches, and one of the supposedly parked domains shows half my site pages and the other about 20%. I called my webhost, and after an hour of dillydallying, they called me back and deleted the domain aliases. They would not take any responsibility for it, but honestly, there is no way I did this. I noticed a decrease in traffic but thought it was due to people shopping IRL for the holidays. I checked for various keywords but my shop, no evil eye, still shows the same rankings. Regardless, my question now is whether I should do a reinclusion request to Google.

walkman

1:22 am on Dec 10, 2009 (gmt 0)



Parked domains break every single SE rule, you are at their mercy. If you really like a name I would take it out of parking and leave with a simple "Future site for #*$!x" template

vincevincevince

1:30 am on Dec 10, 2009 (gmt 0)

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If your rankings are there, you are included, thus you do not need to do a reinclusion. The domain company may have thought you wanted them to be 'alternative access domains' for your site, probably not what you asked for but an easy oversight depending on how the actual request was worded. e.g. "add these to my hosting" could mean connect them to the current hosting directory OR set up new hosting directory for each.

HRoth

12:04 pm on Dec 11, 2009 (gmt 0)

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Okay, thanks. So far, so good.