Domain name "masking"?
Hello Folks
I have a Website at http://www.nickycampbellatradioone.co.uk/
but when the Site is picked up by a Search Engine the URL that is displayed is dannybaker.force9.co.uk/campbell/
For example:-
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?q=%22Nicky+Campbell%22&tab=www&go=homepage
When I purchased the domain I perhaps rather naively believed that the domain masking (if that's the right term?), employed by the Company I purchased the new name from would hide the Hosting URL?
Is there a way around this?
Perhaps a piece of code I could employ in my source code to stop the hosting domin being picked up on Search results?
Cheers
Andrew
The Webmistress posted this at 15:37 — 7th July 2002.
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Basically if you use free space with a domain name forwarded to it then this will happen. The best way around it would be to pay for actual webspace using the domain, which is preferable for the search engines as then they can crawl all your pages and display results accordingly eg. yourdomain.com/radio.html or whatever.
The other way is to use a frameset so that the index page is the frameset and all the pages display within the frame and the url displayed on the browser remains as the domain name. Draw backs of this is that the search engines will possibly still display the freespace url (although you can force the browser to display the page in the frame when clicked on from a search engine) and framesets aren't particaularly SE friendly.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Andrew_Samuel posted this at 20:00 — 7th July 2002.
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Cheers Julia
Not what I wanted to here but much appreciated
Regards
Andrew
The Webmistress posted this at 07:24 — 8th July 2002.
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Is the Danny Baker site yours as well?
Andrew_Samuel posted this at 19:50 — 8th July 2002.
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Whoops, the cat's out of the bag!
Yes WM I have both Sites and as Nicky Campbell is somewhat of a hate-figure among DB fans I'm sure you can understand the dilemma.
Cheers
Andrew
The Webmistress posted this at 19:57 — 8th July 2002.
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LOL
Best option really would be to host it else where then and either pay for space so that domain is shown at all times or forward to some other free space but you'll get the same problem. If you do change it though keep the page that's shown on the SE's with a redirect to the new location until you get that in the SE's instead.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
The Webmistress posted this at 14:35 — 12th July 2002.
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I have just noticed on FreeParking.co.uk that they are now offering domain masking https://www.freeparking.co.uk/default.asp?f=9 I don't know how effective this is though!
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Andrew_Samuel posted this at 19:42 — 12th July 2002.
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Cheers Julia,
I'll have a look
Thanks again
Andrew
The Webmistress posted this at 08:32 — 13th July 2002.
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Let us know if it works.
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