If you administer your own domain names, via your ISPs control panel, it is really important that you understand the different ways in which you can point a domain name at a website.

We have in the last week had 2 new customers who have selected the wrong method of pointing their domain names at their webspace.

The first had recently changed the name of their business and had purchased a second domain name and pointed it to their website using Web forwarding with a frame. The problem for them was they could not login into the admin area of their Blog via their new domain, they also could not get listed correctly in Google.

We helped them by making their new domain name the primary one associated with their website and set up a 301 redirect for their old domain. Now their Blog works correctly and they will over time the get correct listings in Google.

Our second customer had registered a domain name for a new business but then used web forwarding to point the domain name to their web space. This meant that even if you typed in their domain name the ISP’s domain name appeared as the address of their website. This made Google think that our customer had something to hide or they were trying to fool Google in some way, so they never listed the site.

Again, as with our first customer, we changed the way their domain was associated with their web space and they will now get their listing on Google.

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