I have a domain that is pointing to my servers IP using a A-record. Only problem is, Google is indexing my site both by domainname AND IP-Adress, and that doesn’t look very good in the search results.. How can i solve that?
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I have a domain that is pointing to my servers IP using a A-record. Only problem is, Google is indexing my site both by domainname AND IP-Adress, and that doesn’t look very good in the search results.. How can i solve that?
Depending on what technologies you’re using on the web site, you may be able to make the robots.txt file smart enough to allow crawling for the domain name and disallow it for the IP address.
Another alternative is to set up your web server with “virtual hosts” or “host headers” that will prevent the site from even responding to requests to the IP address.