Google Showing Wrong Address

[RD_Print]

Hi I and my clients have recently Realised that when we search for the domains added to my hosting account it shows like This:



It's Showing the full file address with our domain showing up not just the clients.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

I have another Hosting account that uses Cpanel and I do everything exactly the same but does not do this.

Regards
Steve

[Matt R.]

How have you submitted the domain to Google? Did you follow their guideliness? Also try adding Google webmaster tools etc, it can often help in the SEO process.

[Twiztid]

I would say it might be a google bot and just got so much , they come and go like most bots do , so if you want it to be updated quick resubmit your site to google and be sure to submit them to other search engines also

Ed

[Alan B]

Are you using the AddOn Domain feature for that domain? If you are reselling to clients, you would be better off with a proper Reseller account. In a Reseller account, each domain gets its own cPanel and is entirely separate from the reseller's domain (your domain).

[Saf M]

I would not be bothered about it. This is common if its a new site or if the site does not have enough links pointing to it from other websites.

You should just focus on the website itself and forget about google. It would take care of itself.

[Fibo_fr]

OK. Pardon my non-diplomatic language, but you have lots of errors.
Seems you did wrong on the SEO part, and wrong on the webmastering part.

1 - The link to http://www.1300truair.com.au/ does work fine.
So any index that would point to the right address would find its happiness there.
BUT it seems you NEVER indexed this site directly, just thru your own site...

2 - What I would do:
a - take care that if someone links to the "old" address, they are rerouted to the good one. Edit .htaccess file in the directory of the site, presumably /1300truair.com.au/ under your /public_html/.
I would personnally place the following:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} rdpersonalisedprinting.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.1300truair.com.au [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://1300truair.com.au/$1 [L,R=301]

(the line ^www contributes to the fact that all pages will be displayed as //1300 rather than some as //1300 and the others as //www.1300, not very good for seo; as an alternative, remove www. from ^www and place it on the last line //www.1300)

Expected result:
- all pages that are currently in search engines as rdpersonalisedprinting, will be silently redirected to the correct page; initially just in the visitor browser (search engines will still have the old address), then also on the search engines as their spider take note that the page is code 301, ie "moved permanently".

2 - Create an xml sitemap of the site at the correct address, eg by using gsitecrawler. Place the sitemap in the root of 1300truair eg as sitemap.xml
Also create at the same place a robots.txt file, with the following content:

User-Agent: *
Disallow:
Sitemap: http://1300truair.com.au/sitemap.xml

This will help all major serach engine to discover your sitemap.

3 - To speed up the indexing process, submit to Bing and Yahoo. For Google, you need first to have a page that links to your site... the 301 redirect might help but you should really consider to have some other page pointing to the "new" good page.

4 - You should have a site for your own use, in which you present your business and place links to your clients. This is not the case, since http://www.rdpersonalisedprinting.com/ does not qualify (for your safety, URGENTLY place an index.htm or index.php there!!!)
You also have a very serious potential security breach, but I'll PM you on that.

[JasonD]

If you have "Options All Indexes" or "Options All +Indexes" in your settings, which is also a common default setting for FTP crawlers, that will happen.

In a virtual server, your clients "domains" and "sub.domains", are a "sub" of your domain, indexed as a folder. Unless you provide them with separate IP's and computers.

clientdomain.yourdomain.com is the true minimum that can be made. However, virtual servers kindly re-write that to "clientdomain.com". That site can still be reached from any method. It is the NAME-SERVER that does the actual re-direction.

Other virtual variations, which may exist...
yourdomain.com/clientdomain/
yourdomain.com/~user
clientdomain.yourdomain.com/
clientdomain.yourdomain.com/~user

One or all of those might exist at once.

Robots that can see the "Indexes", can see your files and folders in YOUR WEB ROOT. So they see the folder "/clientdomain/" in your folder "/yourdomain.com/". That is what google is seeing... That looks like it is part of your website.

Hiding the indexes by adding the line below... into your .htaccess in the main web-root folder, will stop google from seeing your specific folders and files.

Options All -Indexes

Adding a site-map will allow google to see pages that are not linked from the index-html page. EG, you can have exitpage.htm, not linked to by any internal pages, but you want google to see that. That also helps if you use javascript links, which google can not follow from pages. Programs usually create site-maps for you, based off the settings you choose. Otherwise you have to do it manually.

I would recommend that you put a rewrite redirect to the clients page, if someone attempts to access it via the virtual path.

The htcode would look like this... (In each clients website, not yours.)

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

This forces "http://yoursite.com/clientsite.com/test/something.htm" to "http://www.clientsite.com/test/something.htm". That also preserves the $1 (URI) requested folder/file structure.

The reason this goes in the clients web site, is because the virtual-path directed the browser to the clients site. Thus, it does not read your htaccess, but your clients htaccess. However, the virtual path was not rewritten by the server, so it still shows your physical virtual path to your clients folders. (Eg, your virtual clients are virtual/virtual clients. Your host does not rewrite your virtual clients unless you have a hosting account, which DOES rewrite your virtual folders, and your clients virtual-virtual folders, as a ROOT WEB folder.)