Hey,

Thanks for your answer. We had a problem in that Google Webmaster doesn't recognise our domain (its a .vic.edu.au - Australian Education domain - it errors saying, 'this is not a root level domain) and won't let me access settings like the page moving setting.

Will they work it out anyway? Is there anything else we can do to help it?

Thanks again,

Anthony

Hi,

We recently enabled a 301 on our domain from our old website to our new website. On the advice of fellow mozzer's we copied the old site exactly to the new domain, then did the 301 so that the sites are identical.

Question is, should we be doing the 301 as a whole domain redirect, i.e. www.oldsite.com is now > www.newsite.com, or individually setting each page, i.e. www.oldsite.com/page1 is now www.newsite.com/page1 etc for each page in our site?

Remembering that both old and new sites (for now) are identical copies.

Also we set the 301 about 5 days ago and have verified its working but haven't seen a single change in rank either from the old site or new - is this because Google hasn't likely re-indexed yet?

Thanks,

Anthony

Hey,

I tried to find and answer to this seemingly simple question, but no luck.

So, I have one domain name with a website attached to it. I also registered all the other domain names that are similar to it or have different extensions - I want to redirect all the other domain names to my one main domain name without getting penalised by the big G.

It looks like this:

www.mainsite.com - this is my main domain

I also have www.mainsite.com.au, www.mainsite.org, and www.mainsite.org.au which I all want to just redirect to www.mainsite.com

I have been told that the best way to do this is a 301 redirect, but to do that you need to make a CNAME for all the other domains that points to www.mainsite.com.

My problem is that I cannot seem to create a CNAME record for http://mainsite.com - I have it working for http://www.mainsite.com but not the non www record.

What should I be doing differently? Is it just my DNS provider is useless?

Thanks,

Anthony