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    I am using ASP.NET 2.0 to build my web site www.xinlock.com and I submitted to MSN search engine more than one year now. The problem is that I could never use direct search to find my web site even I used web master tool to validate robots.txt. I also submitted to Google and Yahoo and I have no problems with those search engines.

     

    When I log in the webmaster tools, the summary page of webmaster tool displays that last crawled is 12/2/2007 and indexed page: 1. The strange thing is that there is a hyper link called xinlock.com under web page of top 5 pages, which never worked. Obviously it will not work because the link is http://xinlock.com. I do not how the link is generated and how to change it.

     

    Thanks.

    Tuesday, February 5, 2008 7:48 PM

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    Hi,

     

    301 redirects should be working correctly now.

     

    Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:17 PM

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    Hi xinlock,
                Try to contact your hosting admin and try to resolve issue why they are not able to map http://xinlock.com to ur index. I think thats your main problem.Usually most sites work even without entering www. So some problem with DNS it gives a bad request, which is same as site doesnt exist.

    Dexter
    Sunday, February 10, 2008 12:13 AM
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    Hi

    I too am having a similar problem. I have submitted my site MSN and have logged in to webmaster to check that everything is as it should be.

     

    My url is indexed and is not blocked. My site map has been verified-no problems and I'm able to see my top back links,

    however my site has not been crawled yet, but this should only increase the number of pages not stop me from seeing my index url should it not.

     

    Your help would be much appreciated.

    Sunday, February 10, 2008 5:33 PM
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    Hi kj_dinesh,

     

    Thank you for replying my post. My DNS is Yahoo DNS. It is a common practice that two "A" records are listed. One is www.mysite.com and the other is mysite.com. I tried to change or delete mysite.com using Yahoo domain management tool but failed. Please let me know if you have other ideas.

     

    xinlock

     

     

    Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:28 PM
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     xinlock wrote:

    Hi kj_dinesh,

     

    Thank you for replying my post. My DNS is Yahoo DNS. It is a common practice that two "A" records are listed. One is www.mysite.com and the other is mysite.com. I tried to change or delete mysite.com using Yahoo domain management tool but failed. Please let me know if you have other ideas.

     

    xinlock

     

     


    There needs to be a 301 redirect from www. to non-www or the reverse, whichever the webmaster chooses and whichever gets the inbound links. Also, the internal linking should all be consistent, to either one or the other. Not index.htm or index.html - just the root index page with / at the end.

    If the host doesn't offer .htaccess or the ability to do 301 redirects, either ask that they enable it or move to a different hosting company. It's standard with Linux hosting, but with IIS hosting it can take having root access to the server to do it or getting (buying) some proprietary software like ISAPI_Rewrite.
    Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:25 PM
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    As the previous poster correctly said, you need a 301 redirect to sort that issue (in theory). Having said that and referring to the last time a Live Search engineer spoke on this forum: Live's bot does not handle 301 redirects at the moment ;(

    I have couple websites with 301 and even tried 302 redirects for months, yet still Live Search does not follow either although visiting my homepage every couple days. All my redirects and incoming links point to the www.domain.com. Results on Live show DOMAIN.COM still! I see this problem present for many websites, it's very common.
    Friday, February 22, 2008 10:10 AM
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    Hi,

     

    301 redirects should be working correctly now.

     

    Tuesday, October 14, 2008 2:17 PM