I was inspecting my logs today and noticed visitors coming from some web-site I never knew about. Interesting I though - someone put a link - nice. However when I went to check it out it turns out that there is no web-site at all. The other domain just resolves to my IP. And since I have dedicated IP hosting apache serves all the content without verification of requested domain name. I checked with domaintools and the domain in question was registered recently and same owner has ~100 other domains. Could be someone made a mistake when configuring their DNS but I'm getting a bit paranoid. Is there any scheme that could somehow harm my web-site? Steal domain, hurt SERP position etc?
this could work in the same way as the proxy redirect thing that people worked out a while ago. basically your site may end up being classed as duplicate content. however it is most likely just a dns error
Add this .htaccess file: Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.your_domain.com$ RewriteRule ^(.*) http://www.your_domain.com/$1 [QSA,L,R=301] Code (markup): Any domain pointing to your site will be redirected to your domain and their backlinks will benefit you. Jean-Luc
Yep, I did get the dedicated IP recently. Hmm... What if these links are from "bad neighbourhoods"? Or I don't get penalized for them I unless I link back?
"Bad neighbourhoods" can link to any site. Shouldn't be a problem as long as you don't link to them. Jean-Luc