I have noticed a few of my google results are showing up as mail.url.co.uk instead of the usual www.url.co.uk. Clicking the link takes me to the correct page. Has anyone seen this before and how do I stop it.
I have spoken to actinic and they cannot find any reference to mail.av4home.co.uk on the site at all. I have done a site:mail.av4home.co.uk and it returns 138 results.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Currently actinic, our hosts and I are stumped
There is no reference to mail.av4home.co.uk in the htaccess.
The only unusual thing in there is a piece of code to change the robots.txt file depending on whether the site is accessed using http or https. I added this because I was having a similar problem a few months ago when I started noticing google was indexing https pages from the website.
We do have ssl but it is only used in the checkout
Code below
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RewriteEngine on
Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} ^443$
RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ robots_ssl.txt
Host-it are telling me that our dns a records include mail. and they also have a *. entry. Meaning that someone can type in fish.av4home.co.uk and be redirected to our site.
They advise that *. entry is left to catch customers who type in the address wrong. Not sure if this is really necessary as it would only catch people that cant manage to type www. (so i believe)
I dont think that I have referenced mail.av4home.co.uk anywhere on the site and i think that it has been linked on another site.
It certainly came from somewhere - probably mistyped and then indexed on from that. If you don't stop the catchall now it will may well happen again in the future too.
I was contemplating this, in your opinion would google steadily reduce the number of urls listed as mail. and instead start listing the www. ones instead.
you might be able stick it in your htaccess to block this url, your need to read up on the exact format, if possible also look at google webmast tools to see if you can add something there
mail is normally used when you use webmail or something similar, your mx records are mail.av4home.co.uk this is not that uncommon. if people here try they will find that their website probably does the same, just yours has been indexed
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