: Google results show .info domain instead of .com I am on shared hosting currently and i registered this account with a .info domain as the main domain.... say MyDomain.info . However, the
I am on shared hosting currently and i registered this account with a .info domain as the main domain.... say MyDomain.info . However, the site runs from MyDomain.com .
This is a cpanel based shared hosting account.
MyDomain.info has nothing hosted at all... i.e no content files... MyDomain.com is setup as an Add On Domain and run from /public_html/MyDomain under MyDomain.info
The problem is that when i type MyDomain as the keyword for search in Google , it shows result(s)for Mydomain.info although this is not the intended site and has no content hosted on itself.
I tried to solve the issue by issuing a 301 permanent redirect from MyDomain.info to MyDomain.com, however Google keeps on displaying results as mydomain.info as the main site even after 1 month of the redirect.
I want google to index MyDomain.com as the main site and remove MyDomain.info from the results.
Also is this harmful from the seo point of view? How can i improve the seo if it is?
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Sign up for a Google Webmaster Tools account and submit an XML sitemap for your .com. Then you need to tell Google you have moved your site using the address move tool.
Instead of a 301 redirect you should forward the main domain to the addon domain in your registrar account. I know that most unlimited hosting providers force you to register a domain for the primary account.
Forwarding the domain may not remove it from Google's index, what may be better is to do a nofollow on the domains index file assuming that's the only file in the root directory. And block all the robots with robots.txt
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