Real Estate Marketing Tip Of The Month

**Real Estate Forum** · 08-05-2005, 02:32 PM

Edit, she got the url wrong:
This is it:

Code:

<?php
header("HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location:http://www.sitetutor.us");
?>

**frobn** · 08-06-2005, 05:32 AM

To redirect all pages put this in your .htaccess file

redirect 301 / http://www.sitetutor.us

**Chief Tutor** · 08-11-2005, 07:53 PM

Ok,

So let me get this straight:

302 is temporary forwarding
301 is permanent forwarding

However, my question is this: If I have a website...then buy a domain www.samplenew.com at godaddy...and forward it to www.sampleold.com, it is considered a 302 temporary redirect.

Where do I add a file at godaddy so that I get a 301? There is NO place to add any code. Do I need to add this code to the current domain located at www.sampleold.com ?

And if I have 10 or 20 domians forwarding to www.sampleold.com, do I need to add code for every URL?

**KSA** · 08-11-2005, 08:10 PM

Sansei,

Rather than forwarding the domain name, can't you just change the DNS Server information to the server where your site is hosted?

Then, it's not any kind of a redirect.

Why do you have 10 or 20 domains pointing to the same site?

Maybe someone else can tell you if I'm right, but I don't think that would hurt your main site, you just won't get any rankings on your other domain names.

If you want rankings on your 10 or 20 domain names, you'd have to buy a hosting account for each one so that you can put an .htaccess file to do the 301 redirect. Could get expensive.

Kathleen

**Chief Tutor** · 08-12-2005, 05:47 PM

You are correct. I am not trying to get any rankings with the other domains. I just want to keep them active and pointed to a real estate related website. In the future I will be using them for real estate purposes and my thought is that it will give me a head start once I use them. (just a theory)

Plus, I am lazy...this is easier then building a one page site for all the doamins.

**justicewhite** · 08-16-2005, 08:28 AM

Would it be possible for the moderators to put the first 2 posts in a sticky and move the rest to the Website development area please.

I think they're are very good posts and the 301, 302 redirect discussions are kinda diluting the value in this area.

**happy home** · 05-04-2006, 02:18 AM

thanks for post

**themedialion** · 12-12-2006, 01:34 AM

Redirects are basically blue smoke/mirrors ways to get one url to bring up another site.

To make a site officially be on the internet it needs to be in DNS.

What you need is the following:
1) a dedicated IP address for your website (several web site hosts use shared IP addresses, you have the same IP as other web sites on the same hosts and the hosting provider maps your traffic to your site via the web server. A shared IP address cannot be entered into another DNS server because the web server won't know how to map the traffic to it).

2) a DNS server to add your url and static IP to... Several web hosts will only allow the one DNS entry for your one URL. Some may offer a 2nd for free. Often you will need to pay extra for extra DNS entries. If so, you can use someone like zoneedit com to have up to 5 more free DNS entries in the world wide public dns (and additional ones are fairly inexpensive).

You simply punch in the domain and the dedicated IP address. It can take up to 24 hours for these changes to propagate thru the world wide dns servers.

This will allow your alternate URLs to all resolve to the same IP address and the search engines should see them as unique sites (this is a theory).

Kevin