SEO Tricks: How to Protect Your Business From Nefarious Subdomain Hijacking

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How to Protect Your Business From Nefarious Subdomain Hijacking
 

<p>A couple days ago while I was at a conference news came about that You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to post links to their other websites. It is getting really hard to trust *many* online service providers.</p>
<p>A big tip for new websites is to use the www subdomain and 301 the non www version to the www version, for 3 reasons</p>
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<li>If some nefarious group tries to add subdomains to your site you can easily spot them with a Google search for You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login (you could subtract other subdomains if you liked as well, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login). You can even set up a You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to track Google indexing any subdomains by entering that search in a Google Alert. Once any new subdomain is discovered you can delete any of their nefarious activity and/or add the subdomain and 301 it to your site to reclaim any link popularity (if the domain was expired or re-purchased and the subdomain had some remnant link equity).</li>
<li>Already owning the www and non-www means that they have fewer opportunities to hijack one of your most important subdomains.</li>
<li>Some automated penalties that occur on subdomains do not flow back to the root. If you are using WWW you can move it to another subdomain, but if your core site is at the root (without the www) then you may be out of luck.  </li>
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<p>Disclaimer: Microsoft Live Search is *really* bad at following 301 redirects. So if you are already using the non-www version and have built a lot of links, then it may not be worth the risk of 301ing it...especially if your site is really clean and you are not pushing any algorithmic limits with aggressive SEO techniques.</p>
<p>In addition to the above tips, ensuring that you software is up to date and using your own non-shared host also helps mitigate the risk of subdomain hijacking. SEO Book reader You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login also stated </p>

<p>Another good tip is to create a wildcard dns 'A' record for your domain. Then config your web server to 301 all unrecognised hosts to your main site.</p>
<p>This is good for picking up the You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login typos too.</p>
<p>Of course - you may or may not be able to do this on shared hosting.</p>

 

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