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ADR International
03-25-2011, 08:23 AM
Hi I need some help.
We have a main international website which ranks well within Google.co.uk and Google.com. We have a Australian office and I have struggled to lost inside google.com.au to get this to rank.
We own the domain .com.au for our site and set up a redirect. So I have started to link build to the .com.au site to see if this will produce a better rank. However, when looking at the site page the bank end only has the following code:

<html>
<head><link href="App_Themes/Default/StyleSheet.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" /><title>
adr-international.com.au
</title></head>
<frameset cols='100%'>
<frame id="MainFrame" name="MainFrame" src="http://www.adr-international.com"></frame>
</frameset>
</html>

Is this bad? Or does it not matter as the page is redirected to our main site?

Sorry if this has been covered I did search the forum but couldn't find any related posts.
Thanks in advance
speed
03-26-2011, 12:08 AM
I wouldn't do it with a frame like that as it's not a redirect it's simply making your main site content visible on another domain but this other domain has no content of its own, so really has nothing to be indexed.

If you want your .com.au to send visitors to your .com then I'd park the .com.au over the .com site within the hosting control panel and make sure that I have a .htaccess that redirects everything using a 301 to the .com version e.g.


RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.adr-international\.com [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.adr-international.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The above assumes you are on apache, but simply says if the browser asked for anything other than www.adr-international.com e.g. www.adr-international.com.au then do a 301 redirect to www.adr-international.com

Hope that helps.
ADR International
03-28-2011, 05:19 AM
Great thank you - that's loads of help.
I did think something wasn't correct.