#1 on google by isp.com/web/people/~username

[steco]

Good news bad news kinda thing
Google ranks me first for several keywords,
but they list me by the path to my webdirectory on my host's unix box (running apache) and not my domain name.

I do have an ip address that points to my domain,
but im guessing that the spiders crawl the isp and index all the subdirectories.

Is this something that the isp can fix?
(I'd need specifics to hound them with)
I'd hate to have to switch webhosts to get my www.foo.com listing and break all the search engine links
thanks
-s

[EliteWeb]

Find out who links to you with the ~/username path, if its your hosting company politely ask them to remove you from wherever the link is shown. You can also overcome this by having more links with higher PR to your domain name and increase the links. Welcome to WebmasterWorld :D

[steco]

thanks fopr the reply!
but, no one links to me by host/~username
(no one links to me at all)
the problem is my site was listed during a crawl
of the webhosts machine, so i look like a subdirectory of their main site.
//host/people/~username
(the actual path and how i'm listed by the se's)
//host/people gives a list of every user on that box with a web directory.
The host needs it to be readable by browsers,
but it probably shouldnt be crawlable
by the spiders or better still, they should be instructed to read it as domain.com where applicable.
Other hosts do this sucessfully,
the trick is... what do i tell the host they need to do so that the next crawl I get my www.foo.com listing?