Addon Domain Indexing Issue

[denchomsky]

Hi.

Can any help with this.

I added some addon domains to a hosting account and did the google webmaster stuff to verify e.t.c so the sites could get crawled.

Well that was two months ago and the sites are still not indexed, then I noticed that if I type the url into google the url's are all prefixed with the domain name that I used to set up the hosting account. eg :

instead of www.addondomain.co.uk - it is > masterdomain.co.uk/addondomain.co.uk

I was wondering if this effecting being indexed by google?

Cheers.

 

[retired_member13]

If you PM me the Master and Sub names in question I can take a look at it for you.

Ty

 

[golddiggerguy]

I'm guessing its a wordpress install and you ran the setup through addondomain.masterdomain.co.uk ?

This happened to me when the DNS hadn't updated as fast as I wanted and set the install using the sub-domain.

Might be wrong but I've done this a few times and when you make a post it sends out hey search engines this blog or site is on this url. addondomain.masterdomain.co.uk

Maybe, maybe not.

To get round it, I'd say backup, delete domain as an addon from hosting and add again and run the wordpress install again. Using plugins that help notify search engines of it - Site Map XML etc

 

[denchomsky]

Cheers but it is not wordpress, it is static html, hosting support said (about 1 month ago) to add a blank html file to the public_html folder and this would fix it, but so far it hasn't worked?

Cheers

 

[Skinner]

I've neve had this problem unless your domain name isn't parked properly then it would work like that.

When you add an add-on it creates a number of locators

addon.dom.ext

Which also creates

dom.ext/addon

Then your dns maps your domain using an invisible link of sorts that serves your pages in the addon folder to the domain.

It sounds to me like your DNS isn't set right.

 

[denchomsky]

Thanks for the help, support has told me again that adding a blank html file to the public_html folder should fix it, and I should wait until google next sends it's bots about, but like wise, with other hosts I have never had to do this, this is a new hosting company I am using.