Domain mapping playing havoc with Google listing!

  • Resolved jwmw

    (@jwmw)


    12 years, 7 months ago

    Hi there

    I have multisite installed on domain https://negativeequityhomesales.co.uk.

    I did a site for a friend: negativeequityhomesales.co.uk/ashtanga-yoga-glasgow/

    She obviously doesn’t want my property domain in there so I used the domain mapping plugin to map it to https://ashtangayogaglasgow.co.uk/ for her which worked a treat.

    Or so I thought!

    Having optimised it for her, her site now appears on page 1 of Google for her main search term *but* it appears as:

    negativeequityhomesales.co.uk/ashtanga-yoga-glasgow/

    Which is not good!

    Is there any way I can fix this?

    Thanks for any help you can give!

    John

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  • Check under Super Admin > Sites > Edit maybe?

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/mapped-domain-still-shows-subdomain-url?replies=3

    Thread Starter jwmw

    (@jwmw)

    Thanks for that. Tried changing that to the new domain but that resulted in the site not being displayed at all and negativeequityhomesales.co.uk being displayed instead.

    I changed it back but it is still displaying negativeequityhomesales.co.uk!

    This is now officially a nightmare!

    Any other suggestions (even just how to get it back to the way it was) gratefully accepted!

    Thanks

    Thread Starter jwmw

    (@jwmw)

    OK, managed to get site displaying again.

    Original problem persists…

    [I just noticed that there are other tabs in the Super Admin > Sites > Edit section… I have tried changing random bits but TBH I don’t know which one I’m meant to be changing to which.]

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Did you set it up as the primary domain? Don’t you DARE “Super Admin > Sites > Edit” to ‘fix’ it. You will break things like you don’t even wanna know.

    Thread Starter jwmw

    (@jwmw)

    Hi there

    As far as I can tell, negativeequityhomesales.co.uk is the primary domain and I have no wish to change it…

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    There’s a checkbox for primary domain.

    Anyway, looks like your menu has the old links: https://negativeequityhomesales.co.uk/ashtanga-yoga-glasgow/massage

    How did you make that menu?

    Thread Starter jwmw

    (@jwmw)

    This is fixed now.

    I can’t even remember everything I did but the main problem was that the domain name was hosted by a different company to the one hosting the site. So I moved the name to the site host and now it works.

    Thanks.

    And yes, I still need to update the footer menu links — thanks for the reminder.

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