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Why Has My Domain become a Subdomain?!

by Long Beach Nathan
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Ok, I figured this would probably be the best place to ask this question. I have 2 sites hosted with hostgator, and I found out today that even tho I have both sites live, the second site is also somehow a subdomain of the first!

I'm sure this can be a problem; for one thing it could really be messing up the SEO of my first site. I had added the second site by using Addon Domains in cPanel. Does anyone have an idea what might be going on with this? Maybe it's in how I had set up my databases?

If anyone can help me out with this, thanks. It's probably not urgent, I just don't want it to stay like that for long without being resolved.
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  • Profile picture of the author lloyd02
    It's Ok, I have over a dozen domains at lunarpages that are the same way. They still act independently. You will access your add-ons in a subfolder. It's all good.
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  • Profile picture of the author NetMan
    Originally Posted by Long Beach Nathan View Post

    Ok, I figured this would probably be the best place to ask this question. I have 2 sites hosted with hostgator, and I found out today that even tho I have both sites live, the second site is also somehow a subdomain of the first!

    I'm sure this can be a problem; for one thing it could really be messing up the SEO of my first site. I had added the second site by using Addon Domains in cPanel. Does anyone have an idea what might be going on with this? Maybe it's in how I had set up my databases?

    If anyone can help me out with this, thanks. It's probably not urgent, I just don't want it to stay like that for long without being resolved.
    Everything is absolutely fine, this is how ADD ON domains in cpanel work.

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    Andre Foisy
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  • Profile picture of the author Long Beach Nathan
    Ok, thanks. So do the search engines don't see that subdomain then? Or I guess maybe they do, but they disregard it, knowing it's because the domain was added on with the hosting. An example would be(not real names): watches-site.com and tv-site.com. But there's also tv-site.watches-site.com

    But thanks for the reassurance. Since this happens to you all too, now I know it's normal. I appreciate it, guys.
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    • Profile picture of the author lloyd02
      I think that the correlation is out there. It's just common and insignificant.
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