my site wasn't indexed in google

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by boobi, Dec 24, 2009.

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    I had a website name vocabset.com, recently I registered another domain name (http://freevocabtest.com) I used the new name as alias in the control panel of the former sitename, but It still wasnt indexed by google (about 3 days) I am afraid because the main domain name is vocabset.com then the aliasing doesnt work!
    could it be the case or I should wait more?

    thanks
     
    boobi, Dec 24, 2009 IP
  2. bigcat1967

    bigcat1967 Active Member

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    uhhh - yeah - wait. What you did w/ the sig link was good. That should get your site indexed faster.
     
    bigcat1967, Dec 24, 2009 IP
  3. Canonical

    Canonical Well-Known Member

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    What you've done is a terrible idea IMO... You need to decide whether you want to use VocabSet.com or FreeVocabTest.com as your domain. I'm assuming you want FreeVocabTest.com to be your domain now. If that is so then...

    You should 301 redirect your old vocabset.com URLs to your new freevocabtest.com URLs. You have both domains rendering the exact same content under 2 different URLs. This leads to URL canonicalization issues which lead to duplicate content issues as well as split page rank/link juice.

    Redirecting web pages from your old vocabset.com URLs to the equivalent URL on your new freevocabtest.com domain will pass credit to freevocabtest.com for all inbound links to the old vocabset.com URLs.

    You can do this by adding the following to your .htaccess in the root folder of vocabset.com's web:

    Note the 2nd rewrite rule above will also redirect all requests for http://freevocabtest.com/* to http://www.freevocabtest.com/* making the www version your canonical URL.
     
    Canonical, Dec 24, 2009 IP
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    As Canonical has already explained clearly, it is better to 301 redirect your vocabset.com domain to freevocabtest.com domain using htaccess entries.
     
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  5. boobi

    boobi Peon

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    thank you,

    there were no .htaccess in the httpdocs which I assume is the root, so I create one with notepad (h.txt) and copied what you wrote there, I used <enter> to justify the lines as your code, then I copied it in the httpdocs and renamed it to .htaccess, but again when I type vocabset.com it opens the site without redirection

    I also used url forwarding my domian control panell (its different from my host control panel) and I wait to see if will I see any changes or not

    I prefer freevocabtest.com cuase I thought it will be better shown in google search ! right?

    also note the primary domain of my hosting site is vocabset.com and there is a feature which let to choose alias
    I don't know this will work or not! or should I buy and setup another host!
    the host control panel is Parallels Plesk..
     
    boobi, Dec 25, 2009 IP