Hi,

I live in France, in the mountains and can only use a 56k modem (soon to have antique value!).

I have a website www.immoweb66.com and it is lodged with www.lerelaisinternet.com (a subsidiary of Wanadoo & France Telecom).

Being unhappy with Wanadoo as my ISP I changed and now I keep my website on www.free.fr (for the moment!) And anyone going to www.Immoweb66.com gets redirected to www.myhomepage.perso.free.fr

However I only reference the site www.myhomepage.perso.free.fr for three reasons:

1. I do not have to tell anyone to change the URL of Immoweb66. I do it by redirection at www.lerelaisinternet.fr
2. I believe spiders do not like a domain name that redirects so I just point the search engine spiders to www.myhomepage.perso.free.fr IS THIS CORRECT?
3. I can change my ISP from free.fr to any other and ALL I have to do is start referencing the new homepage on the new ISP.

I realise that I have to re-reference but if I can still keep a web page on the old ISP (with one of those “all-you-pay-for-is-your-time-on-line” deals) I can change that one web page to include that META tag “refresh” and send the surfer to my new ISP. I incur no charges on the old ISP! AND I can still have that looked at by the spiders.

Don’t know if this makes sense but it works because that’s the beauty of a domain name. It’s like having your telephone number for life and it will work no matter which ISP you use wherever you are in the world.

Henry

webmail@henry-bar.net