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"I try to get out, and they keep pulling me back in!"
For me, I get 404 without the port, and it works with the port.
[We did all of this in advance because, in the past, we got beat out by "squatters." Last seaon it cost us a$1000 to buy a domain name back.]
We have registered five domain names for a site that we plan to launch in the fall. (It's very seasonal- time sensitive.) All of them are redirected to one URL- "mywidgets.com" We've set up the account with a cheap ISP but haven't launched any content. Let's say that one of the domain names that we've registered is "smithwidgets.com" .
The only thing that you see at "mywidgets.com" is the ISP's standard "coming soon" page.
So naturally, Google indexed it. Bummer.
And if you search for "smith widgets" Google returns "smithwidgets.com" which leads to the mywidgets.com "coming soon" page with "mywidgets" as the title. Bummer.
(Which is bad, because we're not ready to go yet.) I put a robots.txt exclusion page on "mywidgets.com" and followed Google instructions for automatic removal (which they say they've completed) but a Google search for "smith widgets" still returns the "mywidgets.com" result.
I can't put "robots.txt" exclusion files on "smithwidgets.com" or the other domain names because those sites will never exist. They are just logic domain names, all pointed to the site at "mywidgets.com" (This is where not being specific gets REALLY hard..)
Is there anything else I can do? I really would like Google to stop returning these results until we open in the Fall.
