Hi, I would like to redirect a name to a new domain by using 301, In godaddy it has that option, isit the same as doing it any other way, does the same thing right? Cheers
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Thanks, Any reason why to mask? they are two totally different names.... cheers What I used , thanks Thanks, I used some tools to make sure, search engine friendly, links ok, thanks.
Only reason I would mask is for crawling benefits. I believe that masking the site makes the crawling by search engines go smoother.
301 redirects are permanent redirects and are treated as such by indexers like Google. So it shouldn't matter if you use a 301 redirect via Godaddy or a 301 redirect in .htaccess.
??? Got a link to some documentation that supports this... or is it just a feeling you have? Doesn't masking mean that if someone visits example.com, instead of being 301 redirected to example2.com, the users see "example.com" as the URL address, but the content displayed is from example2.com ? If that's right, are there any duplicate content issues? OP, if you can use .htaccess, use that instead. Forwarding a domain in the Godaddy domain manager seems to work most of the time, but I have noticed lately for one of my sites, that the example.net, example.info etc which are all forwarded to example.com using the Godaddy option (without masking) have started showing up in search results when someone searches for the domains+ext. If I search example.info, I get example.info as the first result, it shows content from example.com in the snippet (and site links), but shows example.info as the link at the bottom of the snippet. Clicking on the result takes you to example.com Not sure wtf's going on there, doesn't seemed to have an effect on my ranking, but yeah.. if you are able to use .htaccess, I would use that instead. http://help.godaddy.com/article/664 http://help.godaddy.com/article/422 Cheers James
Just from what I've read around the internet and choose to believe. From past experience however, without masking in GoDaddy, a domain that I wanted to get indexed was not indexing and it had been a few months, a few weeks after masking the domain was indexed. The domain could have just been sand-boxed though. As far as cloaking goes, who really knows. I do know that a 301 redirect tells the search engine that the domain moved so I think that helps to eliminate the issue.
Yeah, the only reason I do 301 redirects is to get the traffic from mistyped URL's. So if someone accidentally types example.co in the address bar, they still get to example.com instead of getting a 404. But yeah. If its masked, wouldn't Google think the two domains are different. Both active but with the same content? Wouldn't they just be competing against each other? Or does Google see it as a 301 but users don't... and if so, isn't that cloaking.. I mean showing a search engine one thing and showing a user something else?