Web Forwarding Help

This article relates to web forwarding. For more information on the web hosting services offered by Livetodot visit our Web Hosting pages.

Web Forwarding

Problem:

Search engines may not be able to index your site properly due to the way we have to set up our forwarding.

Remedy:

Once logged in you can list your domains and if you have given any of them cloaked forwarding you can configure the cloaked forwarding service. You do this by entering the title of your page, a description and some keywords. All this will make your site more visible to the search engines.

Problem:

If you follow a link from your site to an external web site your domain name will still show in the address bar rather than the domain of the site you have now moved on to.

Remedy:

Adding a parameter to your links as detailed below can solve this. If you want the external site’s URL to show up in the location box to replace your domain name, you need to change the HTML code for the link to an external site by adding a ‘target=”_top”‘ in to the code.

<a href="http://www.mypartnerssite.com">

Will need to look like…

<a href="http://www.mypartnerssite.com" target="_top">

Problem:

You cannot bookmark a page in your web site as www.yournewdot.it/page.html as it is only the domain name that shows in the address bar window. You can however bookmark your main page.

Remedy:

None, this is one of the limitations of this type of forwarding.

Problem:

If you follow a link from your site to an external web site your domain name will still show in the address bar rather than the domain of the site you have now moved on to.

Remedy:

None (or buy commercial web-space for your domain)

<img src="http://www.your-isp.co.uk/~youraccount/image.jpg">

You can NOT change the above code to:

<img src="http://www.your-name.it/image.jpg">

Cloaked Web Forwarding

Advantage:

The Real address of your free web space is hidden and only the domain you specify is shown, this looks much more professional than the Refresh Web Forwarding.

Advantage:

Due to the fact that the URL is so much shorter and on display for longer, it’s more likely people will remember it.

Disadvantage:

As Talked about above certain problems can arise from Cloaked Web Forwarding.

Using someone else’s server, either yours or your ISP’s

You can host your website your own servers or on the servers of an ISP you use. We make no charge for the ability to edit which nameservers your domain points to. However, we will make clear now that changes to the nameserver details from the control panel will only work once the name has been added to the new nameservers. A name cannot therefore be parked until it has records in the nameserver to which it is pointing.

To use this feature simply log on, choose My Domains from the menu and click the Change NS button next to the name you want to edit.