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IMPORTANT: Google change IP address vs domain
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Scanned some of our big competitors running later versions of IIS. Sometime towards the end of last month a lot of pages started getting indexed with the IP address vs the domain name. #1 does anyone have an idea how to fix it? Is it a BV thing? Or IIS? #2 check your own sites PromoManagers
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Joined: 11/25/2003(UTC)
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Not seeing this issue here.
At any point when using the website does the URL switch to an IP?
If BV5 check your Security setting in Options > Site Settings just to make sure you do not have an IP set there. |
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bv5 security settings are fine. Just mailed you a few example sites, seems to have started just after christmas.
The obvious question is what's the fix? We have access to IIS, should we set a simple redirect? I see Noah has setup sites like mikestools to redirect from the IP to the domain name and am curious as to how they did it.
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It's pretty common to setup 301 or 302 redirects from your non-main domain name to your main one for SEO purposes. Redirecting from the IP shouldn't be needed under normal circumstances. The question is why/how are the IPs getting into the google index? If you have a link somewhere that uses IP then the google bot could end up spidering by IP instead of domain.
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Marcus, I think based on what I'm reading it's just a google issue...but they suggest forwarding to the domain.
How easy is this to accomplish in IIS 7? Would you recommend a 301 or 302? I noticed Noah is using 302's on his domains.
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301 is permanent and cached by browsers. 302 is temporary redirect. I think in the case of IP address I would use a 302. In the case of a domain name "www.domain.com" to "domain.com" I would use a 301.
I believe there is a module available for IIS7 to do this. I tend to do this in code in the global.asax file.
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Joined: 12/23/2003(UTC)
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if using htaccess file, check with Resposio on version (i'm with them too)
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Host} ^000\.000\.000\.000$
RewriteRule (.*) http\://www\.DOMAIN\.com$1 [NC,R=302]
Keep it all intact, replace the 000 with your ip address. DOMAIN with your domain name. |
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