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Dev site indexed by Google
I was developing a new version of our site on a subdomain (dev.oursite.com) and the robots.txt with the disallow got replaced at some point, so the site got indexed by Google and other search engines. ...
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Setting up a LaunchRock page without hosting
Looking to buy a 'dot-com' domain as cheap as possible, and set the DNS to forward to the LaunchRock service without having to setup a hosting act. Is this possible, and if so how?
I've asked roughly ...
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Pointing a subdomain to Github Pages
I set up an Octopress blog on Github Pages at myusername.github.com. I now want blog.myusername.me (which currently has a Wordpress blog set up) to point to this Octopress blog.
So I followed the ...
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DNS: How can I determine which IP a subdomain is associated with?
I bought a domain(tohid.ir.tc) from a hosting company. it seems that it is a sub domain of this domain(Ir.tc).
it made lot's of problems for me. I don't now to which DNS server it is pointing. both ...
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Subdomains regarding name servers/domains
I know how to configure subdomains like (sub.example.com) on apache etc. My question is, do I need to make any changes to the name servers/domain that is provided to me?
Would it work the same as ...
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How to host a subdomain of a domain which is associated with blogger?
I have a domain www.example.com which is hosted on Blogger platform. Is any hosting site like Blogger, WordPress where I can host my sub-domian like abc.example.com? My original website ...
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Are subdomains (for mobile-specific pages or localization) bad for SEO?
You have a website: http://www.mysite.com
You want to serve up mobile-optimized pages for mobile devices. I've seen a lot of companies redirect mobile devices to this type of subdomain:
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Personalized sub-domain URLs
Most of the SaaS companies, some social networking, and blog services (like Wordpress.com and blogger) create a personalized sub-domain for each user, e.g. username.website.com
What is the general ...
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How does CPanel create subdomains?
I obviously know how to create subdomains via CPanel but does anyone know what exact method CPanel uses to achieve this?
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LaunchRock CNAME configs, what do they do?
Trying out LaunchRock, and ran across this:
general-instructions-for-creating-your-cname-record
Basically as far as I'm able to tell they only support using your sub-domain as the URL, not having ...
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Configuring A Subdomain (cPanel) - www works, subdomain on it's own doesn't
I've created a sub domain on my website using cPanel at test.mydomain.com, and this created a folder in my main 'www' directory called test.
In this folder is a folder called cgi-bin, and it seems to ...
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Subdomain not created
I am trying to create a sub domain like labs.7sisters.in for the folder with document root public_html/7sislabs . If I visit the site http://7sisters.in/7sislabs/ its working fine . But ...
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domain.com/blog vs blog.domain.com [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
I'm about to start my own blog (adding it to a domain already owned by me) and I'm wondering what is the best way to set it up. There are ...
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Why does my link to a Subdomain not work?
My hosting provider has problems. I put Drupal on a sub-domain of my site. When I try logging in or clicking a link it comes to a Internal server error. But if I navigate to the actual directory it ...
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Just bought a domain, setting up a couple server applications for the first time [closed]
I recently bought a domain, mainly for website experimentation, game servers and a ventrillo server. I'm running all this from my home computer, and I am using freedns.afraid.org as my dns nameserver. ...
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Bluehost Automatic Sub-domain Creation
I am working on a small project in which people create an account and they are given a sub-domain like username.mydomain.com
However, while this address is shown in the address bar of the browser, ...
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.htaccess directory to subdomain
I have been trying to make a subdomin from a directory (made by .htaccess) to be used as the main page
starting like: http://domain.com/sub/2/3/4.html and turning into http://sub.domain.com/2/3/4.html
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Best practice for SEO URLs for a classified ads website [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL?
I'm working on a classified ads website project with a large number of sub-categories, i'm hesitating on two approachs for ...
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Are this subdomain CNAME and A record settings correct?
I want to add a simple subdomain named
"tr.latte42.com"
to my website. I tried following DNS record settings:
No matter what i try, i can't get this subdomain working.
Would someone please ...
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Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder? Which is good to manage? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder
keyword.abc.com
or
abc.com/keyword/
Which of this two is good to manage?
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How do I create a subdomain for a site hosted by someone who does not allow it?
I want to create a subdomain for a site hosted by Jimdo (a DIY website builder).
Jimdo does not allow subdomains however. I am trying to find a workaround where a subdomain is hosted elsewhere but ...
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Broken links in content reports when tracking subdomains with Google Analytics
I have a tracking code that I use on my main site and my blog, which is on a subdomain:
www.example.com
blog.example.com
I have a single profile in Google Analytics. I use advanced segments to ...
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Is it “acceptable” for a sub domain to be hyphenated?
I am putting together a site for a portal. Some of the subdomains have rather long names and I am thinking that maybe I should use hyphens to make the subdomain names more readable.
For instance: ...
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create new subdomain or buy new domain? seo costs [closed]
If I am targeting the same audience, but the new sub-site has different concept from the existing site, should I create a new sub-domain or create a new domain?
What are the seo advantages and ...
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Does Having top domain helps in getting better rankings in SERP
Recently i came across an article claiming free sub domains like blogspot,tumbler, wordpress etc are not ranked well in SERP & top domains are ranked better. Is it true?
suppose there are 2 ...
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is it necessary to buy WAP domain or just creating subdomian like wap.xxxx.com
We planning to launch mobile wap site to our exiting customer lead tracking website is it necessary to buy WAP domain or else creating subdomain for exsitng domian like wap.xxxx.com
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Moving a domain and staging url
I have a website with web hosting I am planning on switching away from (Windows Server).
So I got a hosting plan with a linux server and I was going to build a site there using Perch CMS.
Right now ...
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Redirect/Rewrite Dyanamic URL to Sub-Domain And Create DNS for Subdoamin
I have created an application in PHP, I would like to re-direct the following URL to corresponding sub-domain.
Dynamic URL pattern
http://mydomain.com/mypage.php?user_name = 'testuser'
I wish to ...
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Cpanel deleted subdomain now shows 500 error
I created a subdomain in cpanel and then decided that I actually didn't need it, so I deleted it using cpanel.
Now when I navigate to that subdomain in my browser I get a 500 server error. If I try ...
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Incoming Cname does not show the subdomain
I have a subdomain:
sub.domain-one.com which has a CNAME which points to sub.domain-two.com.
All good. But when I enter sub.domain-one.com I don't see the sub.domain-two.com, but the basic page of ...
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SEO a site from another site
I use a vendor who has a site for ordering parts. The vendor sells many kinds of parts. Is it possible to perform some kind of SEO magic, where I can SEO, or direct users, to the vendor's site? For ...
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High Google page ranking lost overnight [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop?
I had achieved a high ranking for a page on my site of the form:
http://domain.com/mypage.htm
Overnight the page is not ...
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Mysterious subdomains to my site indexed by Google
We have an issue with strange subdomains pointing to (pages on) our site such as:
www2.example.com
2.example.com
anothersite.com.example.com
A few things are perplexing:
who created them? why ...
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Can I use the same SSL cert for HTTPS and FTPS
I am looking to get an extended SSL certificate for a server that is handling one of my subdomains. Can I use the same certificate for https://sub.example.com and ftps://sub.example.com, assuming that ...
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Is there such a thing as an “exact match subdomain”?
Google's exact match domain SEO boost is well publicised (including in a recent Stack Exchange podcast). But is there any evidence that an "exact match subdomain" gets any kind of boost?
I'm talking ...
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Can I point a CNAME to a subpage on Google Sites?
Simple question:
I followed the instructions and now I have a CNAME pointing www.mydomain.com to a Google Sites site https://sites.google.com/site/mydomain.
I want to add another, pointing ...
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What impact (if any) will using the term 'portal' in my subdomain names, have on SEO for my website?
I am building a portal for a specific category of information. I am trying to decide whether to use subdomains like:
www.portal.mysite.com/home.html (home page)
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case-specific mod rewrite on Wordpress subdomain multisite
I have split a Wordpress blog into multiple category-specific blogs using subdomains, as the topics in the original blog were too broad to be lumped together effectively.
Posts were exported from the ...
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How to have One DNS and two different webhost?
I have one domain name i.e. example.com registered via godaddy.
Now, I want to host my personal blog on blogger/blogspot with this
url (i.e. on subdomain) "http://subdomain.example.com"
And, I want ...
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Setting Up a Subdomain with Godaddy and BigBlackBag
OK, so I am taking over the site for my dad's small business, and whoever helped him with it before used BigBlackBag.com to build the site. I basically want to get rid of it and start fresh, but I ...
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For SEO, Is it better to have wordfruit.com/blog or blog.wordfruit.com? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Domain or Subdomain: does the choice affect traffic?
For the Wordfruit site to benefit in SEO from the content on the Wordfruit blog, and for the blog to benefit in SEO ...
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How can I point a subdomain at another server? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to point a domain to another subdomain?
Is it possible to set up a subdomain to render content of another server?
Let's say I wanted google.domain.com to render ...
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Thoughts on addon domains vs seperate accounts WHM/Cpanel? [closed]
I have around 100 domain names and growing, I was originally thinking of creating separate accounts in WHM for each domain, however someone suggested just creating them all as addon domains. So I've ...
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Why classifieds pages use subdomains?
Can somebody tells me in terms of SEO if the use of subdomains is better than the use of folders?
Im developing a classifieds page, and I alredy know that many classifieds like craiglist use ...
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Unable to track a subdomain with google analytics
I have a download page on a subdomain (downloads.easyjob.net) and I'm tracking the "virtual page view" to the download following these instructions .
That part works fine. However, I also want to ...
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http://iphone4.domain.com vs http://www.domain.com/iphone4.html? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
I'm making an iPhone repair site, and I'm not sure what to pick here.
http://iphone4.domain.com or http://www.domain.com/iphone4.html
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How to link a domain to a subdomain with DNS / A record?
Ok, there are a lot of topics regarding this, but there is no detailed solution..
I bought a domain www.newsite.com but my webspace is at a different hoster and there in a subdomain ...
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setup test domain ready for site launch
I'm about to launch a site on a live server, after developing it with xampp on localhost. I first want to test the site before i make it live. How do i setup this up so I have it in a subdomain (i.e. ...
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cpanel3-skel like feature for addon domains?
When I create an addon domain I would like to have some files automatically placed within the new domains folder. I know this is possible when you create new accounts in WHM by adding the files to the ...
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Should I remove subdomains?
I am going to optimize a site which has two subdomains since a long time ago. They are pointing to the site's main domain and are well-indexed by Google. I've read in a SEO book however that having ...
