Comments on: Secrets of Using Domain Masking with Free Web Hosting

By: Teo Graca

Teo Graca — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 19:51:56 +0000

Google is recently blacklisting masked websites. It is a shame because the thing that made Google was being able to actually find relevant content in a search anywhere on the web – Google was the first to accomplish this. But since the advent of social media, people are finding what they want directly, without having to search for it – they find it directly through the social media and social networking sites. Google is feeling the pinch and is changing their business model. Craigslist recently changed their business model from free ads to paid ads and they have imploded. Now that Google has changed from to focus on only the larger sites, I expect their relevance to wane too.

By: giysi

giysi — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:55:49 +0000

But i know that search engenes doesn’t like frames.

By: Dubey

Dubey — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:13:37 +0000

I think these are the same thing “domain masking” and “domain forwarding”

By: DJ

DJ — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:11:24 +0000

But i have heard that it makes some negative impact from the Search engines point of view.

By: dhanjit

dhanjit — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:09:16 +0000

Really Great..I m trying it now.got good response from Search engines.

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:26:05 +0000

This is great, worked like a charm! Kind of curious about whether or not you can add a pop up to a masked domain.

By: Maurice

Maurice — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 07:04:03 +0000

sounds like a good idea. then again, package deals with hosting can sometimes be even cheaper than the domain by itself. i just discovered a site that offers hosting, no ads, ftp, & a domain with 10 subdomains for $12 a year. i think that’s less than or equal to the average price of a domain by itself. it’s also sooo much simpler. the method i found most effective: google search for something like “$1 web hosting.”

By: Nikki Rose Ty

Nikki Rose Ty — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:09:23 +0000

Why, thank you. I’m doing that now.

By: userbob23

userbob23 — Sat, 03 Dec 2005 14:10:00 +0000

I set-up a folder using my domain (“bob.net”) with a mask of “bill.net,and searched google and it sent me to the page but the address bar showed bob.net/bill/index.html
What am I doing wrong here!

By: lucas

lucas — Sat, 25 Jun 2005 01:43:00 +0000

just gettin my head around this. i am using the forwarding/masking you talk about (see http://www.notsusan.com) but it annoys me because no matter what page you are in within the website, it always just displays that generic url, and not http://www.notsusan.com/somepage for instance. surely this is not very useful if a visitor to the site wants to send a link to a specific page, and not just to the site index page? any tips? (i’m not using frames in my site).