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Domain URL issue !!!

Nov 5, 2011 6:11PM PDT

Hi All,

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My guess is that
Nov 17, 2011 11:49PM PST

you have a wildcard A record in your DNS... something like:

*.middaily.com. 14400 IN A 118.139.178.51

Which will essentially redirect anything.middaily.com to middaily.com

The bad thing is, that all your sub domains return a 200 HTTP response, which makes them appear as different websites. Google will pick up on this if those URLs referenced anywhere, and penalize your ranking.

You could still do what you're doing so that a visitor who accidentally types in ww.middaily.com (one "w" short) will still get to your website, but it redirects them to middaily.com.

Your issue can be easily fixed by contacting your hosting provider and letting them know to update your DNS.

~Sovereign

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Thank you !!!
Nov 18, 2011 1:25AM PST

Thanks <span id="INSERTION_MARKER"> Sovereign,
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<span id="INSERTION_MARKER"><span id="INSERTION_MARKER">You are right, it seems that there is somewhere wildcard entry and that's why its taking anything. I will talk to the hosting guys.
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<span id="INSERTION_MARKER">Thanks,
<span id="INSERTION_MARKER">Kumar