What is URL Masking?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by carhireindia, Feb 16, 2012.

  1. #1
    Hello friends,
    Please tell me about Url Masking in Search Engine Optimization.
    Thanks for your help....
     
    carhireindia, Feb 16, 2012 IP
  2. Atco-maart

    Atco-maart Peon

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    URL Masking means that the visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your destination website, however the URL in their browser address bar will remain the same. Also known as URL Hiding, this will ensure that your visitors see the orignal domain name and not the destination URL.
     
    Atco-maart, Feb 17, 2012 IP
  3. tim-buchalka

    tim-buchalka Active Member

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    And just to add what the user mentioned above, usually not a good thing to do. People doing that are general involved in grey or black hat stuff. Its better to just show the URL.
     
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  4. sunder0786

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    URL Masking means that the visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your destination website, however the URL in their browser address bar will remain the same.
     
    sunder0786, Feb 17, 2012 IP
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    URL masking is covering up a URL with a different one. It presents one URL when the actual URL is something different.
     
    chinasa, Feb 17, 2012 IP
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    Regarding this, i am not very comfortable on somebody seeing my affiliate id or nickname, so url masking i would be ok.
    Indeed it is not a very good method if you do not want to get penalized by search engines, or even worse loosed your pagerank.
     
    imfusa, Feb 17, 2012 IP
  7. sunder0786

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    URL Masking means that the visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your destination website, however the URL in their browser address bar will remain the same. Also known as Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding, this will ensure that your visitors see the orignal domain name and not the destination URL.
     
    sunder0786, Feb 25, 2012 IP
  8. faysal969

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    Why "Atcomaartb2b" and "sunder0786" are posting duplicate content here? This place is for sharing knowledge and information, not for spamming.
     
    faysal969, Feb 26, 2012 IP
  9. josefaryan

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    URL masking will also search engine optimized if you've properly inserted the meta data like description, title etc. But, with URL masking we can't get our site benefited with the organic benefits (organic traffic)
     
    josefaryan, Feb 26, 2012 IP
  10. ivorlewang

    ivorlewang Greenhorn

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    URL Masking means that the visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your destination website, however the URL in their browser address bar will remain the same. Also known as Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding, this will ensure that your visitors see the orignal domain name and not the destination URL.
     
    ivorlewang, Feb 29, 2012 IP
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    Google allows to do this ?, or is it not ethical? ?
     
    tuitam, Feb 29, 2012 IP
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    #12
    Thanks for sharing such a nice information ...
     
    vacationcluster, Feb 29, 2012 IP
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    Thanks for the information. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
     
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    new things learned from this thread....
     
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  15. shophia

    shophia Well-Known Member

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    URL masking is wrapping up a URL with a different one. It currents one URL when the real URL is something dissimilar. Article addresses the first definition of URL masking. One URL is in the browser's address bar. The page being showed in the browser window is at a different URL.
     
    shophia, Feb 29, 2012 IP
  16. johnsonlogic

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    Url masking or domain masking is an art of hiding the actual domain of a web site, in favor of another name.
     
    johnsonlogic, Mar 1, 2012 IP
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    URL Masking is used for transfer one domain to another domain name..by this user can not see actual domain.
     
    saurabh1985, Mar 1, 2012 IP
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    URL Masking is also known as Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding,URL masking means that the visitors to the domain name will be forwarded to your destination website, though the URL in their browser address bar will remain the same this to ensure that your visitors see the orignal domain name and not t​he destination URL.
     
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    Well, sounds okay, bit confused how it's happening? of course not through htaccess/301.
     
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  20. michaelhomas83

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    Yes useful information ...thanks for sharing with us..about url masking.
     
    michaelhomas83, Mar 2, 2012 IP