Hostgator question "addon" domain

[mandos123]

Hello,

I bought a domain from hostgator and my domain is also located in hostgator. Few days ago I bought another domain. I went to hostgator C-panel and added my domain via "Addon domain".

I have question. Why my domain is available as: myotherdomain.mynewdomain.com and also mynewdomain.com? Does this affect my ratings? It looks more like a subdomain. I would like to know if they are fully separated? Since myotherdomain.com is in sandbox

[muscletom]

i have the same problem / question.
helped me out with a redirect.

[jguy1]

I have the same question. I wouldn't want the two sites associated with each other in any way visible "from the outside". The association, I would think, would effect rankings..?

[UMS]

If you have a shared hosting account, all web hosting providers do this. I won't go into the technical details, but it's a "limitation" of the type of account.

[jguy1]

I just talked with my hosting company and they've told me regarding an "addon domain"...

"It's just like adding an additional folder into your public_html folder"

Being that the addon domain name will be a folder in my public_html folder of my currently hosted domain name, wouldn't this be crawled by the search en gines?

The chat assistant had said there is no connection, but being that it's in the public html folder, I can't see how that is true...

thoughts anyone?

[bitriot]

Whatever site you first open your hostgator account as will be your "main site".

Every domain you addon after that will be referred to internally as:

site2.mainsite.com
site3.mainsite.com

and so on.

However it doesn't matter because your new domain will link directly to that sub directory and that is how all the robots and everything else will find your pages. Google doesn't spider file structures, it spiders links.

So from all of us running many sites on multiple host gator accounts: don't worry about it! Register your new domains, add the proper name servers and then add them via "addon domain" in cpanel - after this, when you visit your new domain url, you will be hitting the proper folder.

[jguy1]

Originally Posted by bitriot

Whatever site you first open your hostgator account as will be your "main site".

Every domain you addon after that will be referred to internally as:

site2.mainsite.com
site3.mainsite.com

and so on.

However it doesn't matter because your new domain will link directly to that sub directory and that is how all the robots and everything else will find your pages. Google doesn't spider file structures, it spiders links.

So from all of us running many sites on multiple host gator accounts: don't worry about it! Register your new domains, add the proper name servers and then add them via "addon domain" in cpanel - after this, when you visit your new domain url, you will be hitting the proper folder.

sounds good! THANKS for the reply!

[mandos123]

but if I would like to sell mysite.com on flippa, then is it possible to keep site2.mysite.com and site3.mysite.com?

[UMS]

See Please read before creating an Addon Domain « HostGator.com Support Portal for more details.