Comments on: cPanel Addon Domains and SEO Woes (Google Duplicate Content)

By: Jordan

Jordan — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 20:14:19 +0000

I just read my response to Ashley. It doesn’t make sense.

Lets just use some example domains. Lets say your main domain name is bob.com and you want to create an addon domain for jim.com

When you create an “Addon Domain” you will be asked for a document root. By default it will be “public_html/jim”. This is a problem, as google will be able to access the content of this folder via bob.com/jim.

To stop this you want to change the “Document Root” to just “/jim” then it won’t be accessible via bob.com/jim and duplicate content will not be seen by Google.

By: mas

mas — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 17:49:24 +0000

If you don’t put it in the public_html folder, where do you place it?

By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:23:26 +0000

The public_html folder is where your site contents go, for instance anything in this folder will be accessible from your website. You should be putting your .htaccess within this folder.

By: Ashley McDonald

Ashley McDonald — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 04:47:48 +0000

“How do you fix it? Change the root directory to not be placed inside the public_html folder and viola, no duplicate content.”

If you don’t put it in the public_html folder, where do you place it?

By: Jordan

Jordan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:37:45 +0000

Kyle, when you create an Addon Domain, a sub-domain is also created. This sub-domain needs to be set to forward with a 301 otherwise Google will see it and get confused or possibly do something that could affect your ranking.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 07:38:30 +0000

“Also make sure to edit the subdomain to forward to the correct URL as well or more duplicate content will exist.”

Could you explain this more detailed please.