Is Google this picky?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by cagintranet, Aug 29, 2005.

  1. #1
    I have a site and i am wondering how i should word my URL. I have godaddy hosting which allows me to permanantly mask my url.
    http://www.cagintranet.com/pghsource
    --masked to--
    http://pghsource.cagintranet.com

    Both URLs work, and MSN is eating up my pages either way, but Yahoo and Google only will get to my first page and then stop. I am thinking this is because everything i have pointing to it is pointing towards it with this url: http://pghsource.cagintranet.com.

    Since the secondary site is connected with my web design site, i dont think there is any type of sandbox issue here, but maybe, i dont know. Any suggestions? Use cagintranet.com/pghsource over the other way?

    I hope i am explaining this thoroughly ... if not let me know. Help!

    Thanks in advance...

    Chris
     
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  2. Smyrl

    Smyrl Tomato Republic Staff

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    Google does not like a 302 redirect. Do you know the way Godaddy is masking/redirecting?

    Well server header check on http://www.cagintranet.com/pghsource shows a 301 in place so 302 is not causing problem.

    Shannon
     
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    I had a site that I was originally directing via go daddy, and google didn't like it much at all. Even after I moved it, it took a while to get Google to index other pages.

    I don't know why, but there seems like there is something it doesn't like.
     
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    bash-2.05b$ telnet cagintranet.com 80
    Trying 64.202.163.153...
    Connected to cagintranet.com.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    get http://www.cagintranet.com/pghsource
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
    <HTML><HEAD>
    <TITLE>301 Moved Permanently</TITLE>
    </HEAD><BODY>
    <H1>Moved Permanently</H1>
    The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.cagintranet.com/pghsource/">here</A>.<P>
    <HR>
    <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.31 Server at www.cagintranet.com Port 80</ADDRESS>
    </BODY></HTML>
    Connection closed by foreign host.


    Seems like what you set up is a forward (mod_rewrite) not a redirect. The redirect you set up is permanently redirecting to itself: http://www.cagintranet.com/pghsource to http://www.cagintranet.com/pghsource/

    Confusing to me I bet to Google as well
     
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  6. cagintranet

    cagintranet Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for all the input... i think i am going to try changing my links to the standard www.cagintranet.com/pghsource - see if that makes any difference.

    for the question.. this site was setup like this for about 1.5 months now.
     
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