Multihosting and Aletia Domains

[mistercheezit]

Hello,
I'm interested in "multihosting" 3 or 4 sites on my primary Gigadeal account. Currently, I own a few domains at aletianic.com and have them setup as URL Frame Redirects to folders on my website. This works for the direct visitor (they see the right URL for the folder content) but doesn't convince google. In the search results Google shows my primary domain in the URL (ie: www.primarydomain.com/subfolder/index.htm as opposed to the domain affiliated with the content.

I was hoping to figure out a way to host four or five sites in my 1 Gigadeal shared hosting account which the search engines actually see as separate sites. Is this possible?

Thanks for any help!
Brian:

[Ron]

Yeah, multihosting is exactly what you want to do with your CPanel. You want to multihost your additional aletianic domains in your cpanel (this will create the subdirectories if they don't already exist, and SHOULD use them if they already do). You will then set your aletianic domains to use the jpc nameservers instead of aletianic's and it will all just work.

If you run into trouble, support will be able to help you lickety split. They do this stuff with domains and dns all the time.

[mistercheezit]

Gosh, thanks for the quick reply! I'll try that out.

[Ron]

You're also probably going to need to redirect the search engines back to your preferred URL, perhaps something like this in your .htaccess file:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/subfolder/$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$         http://www.yournewdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

This says "If the REQUEST_URI is for your old domain and it starts with '/subfolder' [case insensitive], then redirect the user's browser (and/or search engine crawler) to your new domain appending to the url everything that came after the dollar sign in the first line. This is the last rule you should follow for this request, and tell the browser/crawler that this is a permanent redirect."

Then you need to test all the different permutations that the search engines have been using to get to your site, and add a line for each of them that aren't picked up by the changes you've already made to your .htaccess file.

When you encounter that situation, your .htaccess file might look like this:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/subfolder/$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/subfolder/someprogram(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$         http://www.yournewdomain.com/$1 [L,R=301]

The second line was added, and the "OR" condition was added to the first.

But let's cross that second bridge when/if you get there.