Hi to All,

I have a serious trouble with my sites. I have checked my websites today in Google and discovered that my add on domains pages have been indexed as part of the main website. My main websites is: dietprogramreference.com and I have 2 add ons:

1) coloncleansereference.com
2) hemorrhoidstreatementreference.com

Many pages of them have been indexed as pages of the main domain. If I made a seearch in google, I verify this. You can find the information by clicking this link: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Adietprogramreference.com

Each of the add on sites have been created with their own index.html pages and indexed as independent sites. But for unknow reason, Google continue to index the pages either as part of the main domain and the add ons.

As you know this will create many problems from a seo point of view including duplicate content penalties.

I want the websites to be separated and don't know what to do.

Please help.

Yvon

There's an error in the way that LP insists on configuring its servers and DNS, so that add-on domains usually show up (and get indexed) as either subdomains of the primary, or directories under the primary. So http://www.coloncleanserreference.com shows up as http://www.dietprogramreference.com/coloncleanserreference/. You should see this happening in your browser's address bar. One way to fix it is to add the following to public_html/coloncleanserreference/.htaccess:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule  ^(.*)$  http://www.coloncleanserreference.com/$1  [R=301]

This should keep it from being changed to primary/addon/. It may also show up as a subdomain of the primary domain, and you'd have to add a line or two for that. Repeat for the other add-on domain.

The search engines will keep your old stuff around for a while, at least until the next site crawl. I've heard there's a way to remove the bogus site names and have the site crawled for a fresh update, so you can look around for that. In the meantime, there may be a penalty for duplicate content between the "two sites".

Colon cleansing? Yecch! The last time I had to do that was when my typewriter ":" key got gunked up with too much ink from the ribbon!

Did you do that in the right place? public_html/coloncleanserreference/.htaccess? Did your browser give any error messages? What did you see when you tried to load the page?

There are two other possibilities:
1) Whenever you make a change to .htaccess, it's a good idea to either clear your browser cache or force a comple reload of the page (Ctrl-F5).
2) There's a chance that the REQUEST_URI being presented to the add-on's .htaccess includes the top-level subdirectory, i.e., it's /coloncleanserreference/blah blah blah rather than just /blah blah blah. In that case, the file would probably be

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule  ^coloncleanserreference/?(.*)$  http://www.coloncleanserreference.com/$1 [R=301]

Maybe. If that doesn't work, open a support ticket an support should be able to walk you through it.

Hi Speculum,

Believe or not, when I tried to make the redirect with the redirect section in Cpanel, the site became unavailable. I remove the redirect and all fine. I have many other counts with other host. i have 3 accounts with Lunarpages. I am going to close this one and continue with the 2 others. i am just waiting the login details to change my DNS and put the 3 sites on other servers and close this account. They will be on different servers.Problems solved.


Thanks a lot for trying to help.

Yvon

Oh! I though all were about add-on domains with an aim domain. I always follow that procedure to redirect my add-on domains then I just type my .htaccess manually in the way I showed up and all it's fine. Do you think I will have problems as well or it's just with subdomains... but after all add-on domains are subdomains, don't they?  Anyway I think you're righ in the sense to open a support ticket and thaks for replying.