Domain Name Forwarding Can't Be Easier Than This

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Let's say you only own one site but several domains. You want to make sure that even if your customers misspelled your domain name they would still get to your site. Or perhaps you would like to have a specific name directly to a page of your site; whatever the case is, there are some important things you have to consider surrounding many names routing to a single site and search engine submission.

Search engines such as Google and Yahoo won't always wait for you to submit a website. You can recognise this from your server logs if your site has been on for a few weeks. This is a good thing unless your names are being incorrectly forwarded.

What comprises an incorrect forward?
There are many major domain registrars that offer a Domain Name Forwarding (DNF) feature which can cause some problems, especially when search engine spiders such as Googlebot or Yahoo Slurp visit your site.

Here are the things that will happen:

- The search-engine spider pulls up your domain name.

- The search-engine spider visits your website, using a name that is forwarded through your domain registrar.

- Your registrar is now using Temporary Redirect frames or other wrong forwarded methods. This is so because it is assumed that you will point the name to a new hosting account later.

- The spider indexes your website.

But what actually went wrong? What went that isn't right at all? Your domain name registrar did the job. It even sent the spider directly to your actual site when it visited the domain name you have registered. The spider did the job and read the content of the page, and then incorporated them into the search engine index.

Everything is cool right?
When the search-engine spider read the page, it connected to your alternate domain name, the one that should have forwarded to your primary domain name. This simply means that the search engine has effectively tracked down what it will immediately identify as duplicate content. For example, after years of dealing with websites trying to sell Viagra by duplicating their content to hundreds of pages, today's search engines will quickly respond to duplicate content and drops your ranking in the search results list on any search engine.

If you are given enough time, you can find your site that has been banned from the search engine index.
Here is the Solution:

Your domain names have to be routed from the domain name registrar to the host account; from the host account you will need to set a Permanent Redirect to your main site. You can seek from your technical support provider.

Permanent Redirect is logged as code 301. Therefore, it is often referred to as a 301 Permanent Redirect. If you have multiple domain names that you wish to direct to a single site, it can be helpful for you to consider a website host account which offers multiple add-on domains and sub-domains. This is to accommodate all the domain names that you will need to forward.

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John E, Media Relations Adviser Easily.co.uk - Domain name registration, register your low cost domain name today! Search quickly and easily, all major extensions and no catches