Domain Pointers

[kclofts]

I have two domains hosted on a single hosting account.

I use the cPanel domain pointer to point the second domain to a subdirectory of the main site.

So, www.site2.com is pointed to www.site1.com/site2.

That works great and is doing just as I expected. However, I just noticed in the search results that the home page for site2 sometimes comes up as www.site1.com/site2 rather than www.site2.com. I do not want that to happen as the sites are not really related.

How can I keep this from happening?

Do I need to put an entry in site1.com/robots.txt that does not allow spidering of the site2 sub-directory? If so, will that affect the results for site2.com?

What about some kind of redirect?

Thanks.

- Rob

[incrediblehelp]

Well that is why using domain aliasing sucks. Why not 301 redirect the secondary domains to the primary?

[wainrob]

I actually don't have any idea about web domains what it does.. But anyway I'm posting so others can also contribute if they do have have solutions or ideas about this one..

[dreamworldaccess]

I have two domains hosted on a single hosting account.

Rob,

When I started webhosting with cPanel I tried what you are doing. The only way I terminated that problem was to take off the /site2 and simply put it as www.site1.com.

But if the sites are not really realated to oneanother then you have no need to point one site to the other. If I'm missing something then please tell me. I mean you can redirect any website you have to point to anyother site that you have.

I host over 290 sites, but I might be tired and be missing something too.