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Using mixed A-Type and CNAME
A (IPv4 Adresszeiger)
doc.domain.de. IN A 301 to domain.atlassian.net
jira.domain.de. IN A 23.23.xx.xx
domain.de. IN A 301 to www.domain.de
work.domain.de. IN A ...
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How do I map a customer's domain to a page in my website?
I'm considering starting a website that allows customers to map a domain they own and control, to their page or subdomain in my site. Do I need to have an IP address for each customer domain? Is this ...
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web url forwarding to different port and subdirectory
I would like to forward anyone going to subdomain.old-domain.com:8014 to this new address subdomain.new-domain.com:8000/subdirectory (note a different domain AND different port PLUS a subdirectory)
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Pointing a sub domain to another server using directi control panel while domain.com is not hosted
Do we of course need a host for domain.com? Unfortunately currently the host for domain.com is down, so sub.domain.com cannot be redirected to where it should.
Is there a way to at least activate the ...
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CNAME: does a cname change the url that the browser displays?
I have a web site www.somewhere.com and I want the alias fr.somewhere.com.
I set up a CNAME record for www.somewhere.com alias fr.somewhere.com. When a user types in http://fr.somewhere.com in their ...
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Moving site from its own domain to sub directory - updating webmaster tools
We've got a site info-graphic-site.com which is on its own domain, what we want to do is move it to our-main-site.com/infographic
I know how to move them and setup 301's but what I was wondering is ...
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Registering multiple domains vs. subdomains
We are currently planning on registering multiple domains for different parts of the website we own. For example consider that we have example.com as the main domain and have assigned all the ...
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The SEO Impact of Migrating from Free Hosting on WordPress.com to Own Hosting
I have a blog (which serves as a commercial site) hosted on free wordpress.com
Since I now want to customise and get ownership of the whole thing I am thinking of either self hosting or upgrading ...
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What are different types of redirects and when to use them? [closed]
The main types I know of are:
doing a 301 redirect in htaccess, by putting few lines in the .htaccess file, all requests are automatically redirected to a new address.
doing a CNAME redirect (not ...
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One domain and multiple website in folders
I am going to create a network with one domain, e.g. example.com then going to manage my websites in folders. Look below for example:
www.example.com/market
www.example.com/freebies
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Subdomain 000Webhost
I'm currently learning to create a blog using wordpress.org. My site is hosted free on 000webhost. I have trouble creating a Subdomain for my website. This is what I have done so far. Somebody please ...
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Are co.uk domains and the likes subdomains?
I was wondering, are co.uk domains and others with an additional dot subdomains? If not, why not, and if so, can you create sub-sub domains?
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Redirect subdomain to local PC
I have a home web server which is constantly running. Is it possible to create a subdomain which would redirect traffic to another local PC?
For example, I have one Server and one notebook (with web ...
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Is it fine to put different category of stuff in a single domain name?
I own a website which is regarding startups and finance. I am looking forward to work on Wordpress programming in which I would be selling wordpress themes. I thought of buying a domain name for ...
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Subdomain in Drupal to an already existing site
I would like to add to an existing site, which wasn't written in Drupal, a sub site, which is in Drupal. The existing site already has a domain, and this would be a sub domain. I'm using Apache2 and ...
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SEO impact on subdomain for full name and obscure ccTLD
There have been a few questions on subdomains and their impact on SEO, mostly in comparison to subfolders. The closest I've found is this question but it still doesn't completely answer my query.
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www subdomain for my webpage
How many customer do I lose if my webpage is not accessible from www subdomain. Can anyone who has webpage analytics with large number of visitors provide me statistic how many users use ...
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Prioritize webhost for a domain?
I have a sub domain( I do not own the domain) but using Cpanel I am able to set A, NS, Cname records for a sub domain. What I want to do is to associate the subdomain with two webhost and prioritize ...
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.com vs .me for personal and blogging sites. Which one is good regarding seo [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?
I basically have a domain under my name with .com extension. I am planning to use it for my portfolio and also as a regular blog.
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Subdomains vs. subdirectory – status as of 2012.
This following question by Jeff was in 2010 and I wanted to check how things have changed in the past 2 years.
My problem:
I run a site with most of the content distributed to subdomains that’s are ...
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What is better with 3 languages: domain-lang.org x 3, domain.org/lang or lang.domain.org? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization?
I have three domains for similar content in three languages. One in each.
I have now been told that the ...
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How do I set up a double domain like domain2.mydomain.com and mydomain.com?
I would like to set up a server similar to Google's. Their domain acts like a double domain, like you can use these URLS, "play.Google.com" or "apps.Google.com", to go to different sites.. For ...
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Search engines crawling non-existent subdomains
A few years ago, a previous developer added my company's website to a link farm he ran. My company has a wildcard subdomain, so any subdomains will return the user to the homepage. As such, the dev ...
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Domain registrar that will allow separate sub domain NS record [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
So I recently found out to my dismay that my domain name registrar does not even support sub domains?!
Hence I need ...
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How do I properly point sub.domain1.com to sub.domain2.com?
I'm trying to point sub.domain1.com to sub.domain2.com.
They are both hosted on different servers.
I've tried changing the CNAME, but that is giving me a "You don't have permission." error when I go ...
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SEO: Linking to a domain that redirects to a subdomain
I have: www.mywebsite.com which redirects to en.mywebsite.com, es.mywebsite.com, fr.mywebsite.com depending on the user language, so there's not an indexed website in www.mywebsite.com
However, when ...
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How to point one sub-domain to another sub-domain and they can be used interchangeably
I'm trying to do this
secure.domain2.com -loads content from- secure.domain1.com
So if somebody goes to secure.domain2.com it will load the content of secure.domain1.com
Note that I don't want a ...
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3 language website using subdomains and mapped domains. Add subdomains or mapped domains to WMT?
I have a new wordpress multisite setup.
The main language is Italian and there are two subdomains using en and de for english and german.
There is no auto translation plugins being used.
The ...
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How does CNAME work for Google Apps for My Domain?
I recently got a domain and set it up with Google Apps including setting up sub-domains for the different services.
After set up the CNAME, all my subdomains point to ghs.google.com. I was wondering ...
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Adding a user specific website to a domain
I just got a domain (first time) and set it up with Google Apps.
I was wondering if it was possible to set up personal websites for individual users on the domain using notation such as abc@xyz.com ...
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Redirect *.example.com to example.com
I have some valid subdomains in my httpd.conf file. Now how do I redirect anything that's not a valid subdomain to the main website? What I mean is, if I have a valid subdomain hello.example.com, it ...
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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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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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Why does my site only work with a www in the URL?
I'm a bit confused as the following points:
There is a simple text website, with no javascript, that works only with the prefix. http://www.mysite.corporation.com works but ...
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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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domain.com/blog vs blog.domain.com [duplicate]
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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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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Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder? Which is good to manage? [duplicate]
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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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 a WAP domain or just creating subdomain 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 existing domain like wap.xxx.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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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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URLs which begin “www2”
I was sent a link recently http://www2.biotech.wisc.edu/
I've occasionally noticed this appear in some web addresses, where does the "2" come from? Does it mean anything? How would I go about getting ...
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Why am I seeing 'blisque.mydomain.com' in my analytics? [closed]
When looking through my Google Analytics reports, I see visits via mydomain.com but also 'blisque.mydomain.com'. When I visit there, the site is served up, however I haven't configured this subdomain ...
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Move site to new domain divided by language across subdomains
I managed to find a nice domain for a fairly fledgling site of mine that actually hasn't been parked by scumbag squatters. Given the upcoming move I'm thinking I'd take the opportunity to split the ...
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How to point a domain to another subdomain?
I'm really a newbie about this issues so excuse me if this is a rather dumb question, I'm trying to point a domain a client of mine bought to a sub-domain of mine, they're both from different ...
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Google webmaster tools: changing address from domain name to subdomain
So we originally have our blog on our main domain (for example, it would be on www.example.com). Now we have moved it to http://blog.example.com. My question is how do we change the address from ...
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Starting from scratch xxx.yyy.com or www.xxxyyy.com (any SEO difference?)
I know there are lots of answers both here (e.g. this and this) and elsewhere which deal with subdomains and their impact on SEO. However, often the questioners are either asking about subdomain ...
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domain, subdomain and ranking
we have a well ranking site on the domain(e.g. www.test.com) running for 2 years having good PR i.e. 5 and the site having its 400000+ url indexed and then we have a new site on the subdomain(e.g. ...
