It has to crawl first in order to update all the urls. It will
> Thank you! It is redirecting to my site. Is there a way to make
> google show correctly right off the bat?
> On Jun 2, 10:18 pm, webado wrote:
> > You can use the .htaccess file to 301 redirect all urls access on the
> > ip address to what they are using the domain.
> > If you already have an .htaccess file in the root of the website
> > (i.e. same place where you have the index.html file ) then download it
> > by ftp using etxt or ASCII transfer mode.
> > If you don't have it, create it using Notepad and saved under the
> > name .htaccess .
> > Edit thsi file in Notepad and add to it:
> > Options +Indexes +FollowSymlinks
> > RewriteEngine on
> > RewriteBase /
> > ### re-direct index.html to root / ###
> > RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*\/index\.html\ HTTP/
> > RewriteRule ^(.*)index\.html$ /$1 [R=301,L]
> > ### re-direct IP address to www
> > ### re-direct non-www to www
> > ### re-direct any parked domain to www of main domain
> > RewriteCond %{http_host} !^www.monacat.com[nc]
> > RewriteRule ^(.*)$http://www.monacat.com/$1[r=301,nc,L]
> > Save and upload by FTP to the root folder using text or ASCII transfer
> > mode.
> > Just to warn you though that you have to also change your website's
> > navigation so you don't refer to the homepage as index.html . Use the
> > domain root url "http://www.monacat.com/" alone for the link to the
> > homepage (or intro as you call it).
> > The directives in the .htaccess file will do the following:
> > 1) will redirect any url appearing with the IP address to the
> > corresponding url on the domainhttp://www.monacat.com/.
> > 2) will redirect any url onhttp://monacat.com/tothe corresponding
> > url onhttp://www.monacat.com/
> > 3) will redirect any access tohttp://www.monacat.com/index.htmltohttp://www.monacat.com/.
> > Because of 3) you have to fix your navigation at the same time,
> > otherwise you will create redirecitons during navigation of the site,
> > and that's no good.
> > These directives are very useful to resolve canonical issues, i.e. www
> > and non www and/or IP address urls coexisting, as well as multiple
> > urls for the homepage. You currently have 6 of them:
> >http://www.monacat.com/http://www.monacat.com/index.htmlhttp://monaca...
> > The .htaccess will consolidate all of them underhttp://www.monacat.com/
> > and the rest of the site will go byhttp://www.monacat.com/prefixed
> > urls.
> > On Jun 2, 9:15 pm, MonaCat wrote:
> > > I want my website name to show, but a search for my site only shows IP
> > > address. How do I correct this? Thanks!www.MonaCat.com
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