SEO Tycoon

**jim.thornton** · 03-31-2006, 09:44 AM

How can I find out if I am indexed in Google, MSN and Yahoo? I know that *some* search phrases pop me up in Yahoo and MSN so I think I must be indexed there. So, how can I tell if I am indexed in Google. If I type my URL I come up, but only if I type the URL for the home page. If I add "/anypage" nothing comes up.

Once you are indexed, do the crawlers automatically index you whole site or just the main page?

**gringo** · 03-31-2006, 10:59 AM

site:www.yoursite.com

will give you all the pages of your site that are in in google's index.

**jim.thornton** · 03-31-2006, 07:36 PM

Great! Thank you.

I have type that into google and I got 9 results, 8 of which are dead links from a previous site (which I forwarded the old domain to my current domain). Is there a way to get those dead links out of the index?

Also, only my home page is indexed, how do I go about getting the other pages indexed??

**chrishirst** · 04-01-2006, 04:29 AM

You wait

Dead links that return a 404 can take several months to drop out and new hostnames take around 9 - 12 months to appear in the results.

how was the forwarding done ?

**jim.thornton** · 04-01-2006, 11:52 PM

It was a service that the hosting company offered. They offered free domain pointing. I don't know what method they used. I suspect they changed the dns servers but I'm not sure.

**chrishirst** · 04-02-2006, 05:16 AM

you need to know for sure, using the wrong method can be disaster for a website WRT search engines.

Download WebBug and check ( use HTTP/1.1 on the top right ) to see what both URLs are responding with. Let us know the results.

**jim.thornton** · 04-02-2006, 12:28 PM

I don't know what any of this means:

rsptime.ca (my old site)

Code:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:25:14 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

and moneytime.ca (the site it is forwarded to):

Code:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:27:29 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.11
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

After the above text was the html for my actual page and it was both the same.

**chrishirst** · 04-02-2006, 04:26 PM

it means that the hostnames are aliased in DNS
You need to redirect your old hostname to your new using a 301 permanent redirect

take a look through the coding forum here and the pinned thread Here for plenty of examples on how to do this using .htaccess

**jim.thornton** · 04-04-2006, 09:59 AM

My hosting company now uses Cpanel. When I log in there is only one link for redirects and it re-directs a page from my new domain to somewhere else.

The only option I have for my old domain name is to park the domain (which I have done). I don't think I have the option of changing the htaccess file because I don't have a hosting account for the old domain.

**chrishirst** · 04-04-2006, 04:48 PM

As the old hostname is aliased to the new it is hosted on the one account.

So using .htaccess to redirect will solve the problem.

**jim.thornton** · 04-05-2006, 11:51 PM

Okay... I'm offically lost!

I don't understand how this is going to work, or how to do it.

I read a little of the pinned thread but I don't see how it is going to help.

The way I understand it.. I need to put the Rewrite command in the .htaccess file on the domain that I want to redirect.

For example:

I typed: site:www.moneytime.ca

and this URL is one of the results I got: www.moneytime.ca/articles.php

However this url was never part of moneytime.ca it was on rsptime.ca

My understanding is that I would have to put the Rewrite command in the .htaccess file on rsptime.ca and it would redirect all traffic to moneytime.ca

HOWEVER, rsptime.ca no longer exists... I have one hosting package for moneytime.ca and my understanding is it doesn't help to put the rewrite in the .htaccess file on moneytime.ca

Could you please explain and provide proper code so I could understand.

**chrishirst** · 04-06-2006, 03:38 AM

rsptime.ca still exists at the same location as moneytime.ca. That is why the server response using webbug came back with a 200.

So rsptime is still hosted, So you use .htaccess where moneytime.ca is hosted because they are one and the same thing.

**jim.thornton** · 04-06-2006, 12:38 PM

Sorry to be such a idiot about this... I really appreciate the help!

Would this be the correct code to put in the .htaccess file:

Code:

Options +FollowSymLinks 
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^rsptime\.ca
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.moneytime.ca/$1 [R=permanent,L]

Options +FollowSymLinks 
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^rsptime\.ca/articles.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.moneytime.ca/freereports/$1 [R=permanent,L]

Would those work? If so, do I need to do anything else like un-park the domain rsptime.ca??

**chrishirst** · 04-07-2006, 08:04 PM

looks ok,

I don't use Apache at all so no expert with .htaccess stuff, but you need to reverse the order of the directives so the more specific ones are run first.

You also can remove the second Options and RewriteEngine lines.

**jim.thornton** · 04-07-2006, 10:33 PM

okay... I just looked at my .htaccess file. Can anyone help me and tell me where to insert those previous lines.

Here is my .htaccess file:

Code:

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.lowermypayments.ca
AuthUserFile /home/lowermyp/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/lowermyp/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

**chrishirst** · 04-08-2006, 07:09 AM

Hmm are you using FrontPage to upload your site ?

Cos if so it will keep overwriting your version

**jim.thornton** · 04-11-2006, 02:17 AM

No... I use Smart FTP to login and upload to it.

I really don't know anything about .htaccess files though.

Is what I posted accurate?

**chrishirst** · 04-11-2006, 07:00 AM

as far as I can tell it looks ok

**jim.thornton** · 04-12-2006, 03:41 PM

Okay,

I changed the .htaccess file on my site but when I tried to access those old dead links in google it gave me an internal server error. Also, I tried to access my main site home page and I got the internat server error again. So, I removed the changes and now it works.

Can someone tell me what I was doing wrong or should I go to another thread for this?

Code:

# -FrontPage-

IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*

<Limit GET POST>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
</Limit>
<Limit PUT DELETE>
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Limit>
AuthName www.lowermypayments.ca
AuthUserFile /home/lowermyp/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /home/lowermyp/public_html/_vti_pvt/service.grp

Options +FollowSymLinks 
RewriteEngine on 
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^rsptime\.ca
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.moneytime.ca/$1 [R=permanent,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^rsptime\.ca/articles.php
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.moneytime.ca/freereports/$1 [R=permanent,L]

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^rsptime\.ca/articles
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.moneytime.ca/$1 [R=permanent, L]

This is what I put in my .htaccess file.

**chrishirst** · 04-12-2006, 04:13 PM

have a look at post #6 in this thread http://www.highrankings.com/forum/in...howtopic=21715

Randy has used a negative match "!^" to redirect parked/aliased hostnames.

also have a read through the Redirect thread