In my experience of optimizing sites I have never come accross this. The site is being indexed by both its IP address and domain name. http://www.google.com/search?q=site...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...q=site:http://206.71.190.246&btnG=Search&aq=t
Hmmm, it would be one of two things. The DNS might not be setup right to redirect the IP call to the actual hostname when called via HTTP, or somewhere internally or externally there is backlinks to the actual IP address.
I don't think its the DNS information.....I've been searching my site and can't find any links to the ip
ranter, I've seen this happen before with some of my forums, especially if they have a large amount of indexed pages. I'm not quite sure why it happens as I never exposed my sites IP but I was thinking maybe the forum software was having trouble resolving DNS when the crawler came around and delivered the pages via IP than by domain name.
It's normal and does not hurt your ranking. My site is the same. http://www.google.com.vn/search?hl=vi&q=site:75.126.196.85&btnG=Tìm+với+Google&meta= http://www.google.com.vn/search?hl=vi&q=site:wirelessvn.com&btnG=Tìm+kiếm&meta= The pages indexed by IP is less than the domain name.
I can understand this if Google's main concern was to have the IP to do anything to us if we did anything wrong. But if we created our site on different computers at different locations, how woould the IP be viewed then? Would it show all the new ones or only the most used ones? Hmm..curious.
i don't know if its hurting our rankings but in google webmaster tools it is showing up as external links to my site. I'm a little concered about duplicate.
I guess you could always do an .htaccess 301 redirect to make sure the IP doesn't get indexed and to fix canonicalization. The .htaccess code will redirect IP requests and requests for mysite.com to www.mysite.com, just swap out the xxx's with your IP and mysite with your domain name. Hope this helps