laozi
11-09-2006, 07:50 PM
Hi!
I have a domain, http://www.amazingmaxick.com, which I've set up with my service provider to forward to http://www.espensamuelsen.com/amazingmaxick/[U], as I have quite a lot of storage space on [U]http://www.espensamuelsen.com/, and I didn't feel the need to register a webserver with each domain, so I thought I would forward.
However, there seems to be a problem. If you search Google with "site:www.amazingmaxick.com" you will see that it has indexed the site, but it seems the spider wasn't able to read and list the contents of the site? I've come to understand this may be because my service provider has set up the forwarding with "cloaking"? If so, however, why does Yahoo list my page just fine (search www.yahoo.com with "site:www.amazingmaxick.com"?
So, the deal is this about my registar UniWeb:
They offer two kinds of deals with each domain name you register, either:
- Web Hotel, either 50, 125 or 200 MB of storage space. Storage space, e-mail accounts, ftp-server, script etc.
- Domain Hotel, with e-mail accounts and URL-forwarding
Since I had registered www.espensamuelsen.com with a Web Hotel of 125 MB, I thought I didn't need another domain with storage space, and I ordered only the "Domain Hotel" for www.amazingmaxick.com, and asked for them to point it to www.espensamuelsen.com/amazingmaxick/, where I store the site for Amazing Maxick.
But since they seem to be using cloaking of the URL, and this seems to mess with Google (don't really know why it doesn't mess with Yahoo), I was wondering what might be a solution...
What can be done about this? I heard something about a 301 redirect instead of cloaking, provided my service provider will do this, is this a solution? Why does Googles and Yahoos spiders differ in this sense?
EDIT:
Here's the code used on my webpage, set by UniWeb (I have no way to access this myself):
<frameset rows='100%,*' cols='100%' frameborder='NO' border='0' framespacing='0'>
<frame src='cloak.php?url=http://www.espensamuelsen.com/amazingmaxick' name='None'>
</frameset>
<noframes>
<body>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/JavaScript'>
<!--
document.location.href = 'cloak.php?url=http://www.espensamuelsen.com/amazingmaxick'
//-->
</script>
</body>
</noframes>
</html>
I have a domain, http://www.amazingmaxick.com, which I've set up with my service provider to forward to http://www.espensamuelsen.com/amazingmaxick/[U], as I have quite a lot of storage space on [U]http://www.espensamuelsen.com/, and I didn't feel the need to register a webserver with each domain, so I thought I would forward.
However, there seems to be a problem. If you search Google with "site:www.amazingmaxick.com" you will see that it has indexed the site, but it seems the spider wasn't able to read and list the contents of the site? I've come to understand this may be because my service provider has set up the forwarding with "cloaking"? If so, however, why does Yahoo list my page just fine (search www.yahoo.com with "site:www.amazingmaxick.com"?
So, the deal is this about my registar UniWeb:
They offer two kinds of deals with each domain name you register, either:
- Web Hotel, either 50, 125 or 200 MB of storage space. Storage space, e-mail accounts, ftp-server, script etc.
- Domain Hotel, with e-mail accounts and URL-forwarding
Since I had registered www.espensamuelsen.com with a Web Hotel of 125 MB, I thought I didn't need another domain with storage space, and I ordered only the "Domain Hotel" for www.amazingmaxick.com, and asked for them to point it to www.espensamuelsen.com/amazingmaxick/, where I store the site for Amazing Maxick.
But since they seem to be using cloaking of the URL, and this seems to mess with Google (don't really know why it doesn't mess with Yahoo), I was wondering what might be a solution...
What can be done about this? I heard something about a 301 redirect instead of cloaking, provided my service provider will do this, is this a solution? Why does Googles and Yahoos spiders differ in this sense?
EDIT:
Here's the code used on my webpage, set by UniWeb (I have no way to access this myself):
<frameset rows='100%,*' cols='100%' frameborder='NO' border='0' framespacing='0'>
<frame src='cloak.php?url=http://www.espensamuelsen.com/amazingmaxick' name='None'>
</frameset>
<noframes>
<body>
<script language='JavaScript' type='text/JavaScript'>
<!--
document.location.href = 'cloak.php?url=http://www.espensamuelsen.com/amazingmaxick'
//-->
</script>
</body>
</noframes>
</html>