Rewrite IP address to domain name. Should you do it?

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googleme7

Newbie

Jan 13, 2010

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• Jun 29, 2013

• #1

Hello,

I'm wondering if it would be good practice to forward my IP address for my website to my domain using htaccess. Example if a user tries to access my site from the IP it 301 redirects to the domain name. Does anyone else do this? Has it helped you in the SERPS?

Thank You

 

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dinkish

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Apr 19, 2013

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• Jun 29, 2013

• #2

IP Canonicalization.

Same concept as the www-redirect, so it certainly wouldn't hurt IMO. As far as noticeable SERP changes, I doubt it.

 

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socialblast

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Feb 2, 2013

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• Jun 29, 2013

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If I'm not mistaken that would come up with an error, Infinite loop error can't remember the exact error.

I could be wrong though and I doubt it would do anything to help the SERPS

 

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dinkish

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Apr 19, 2013

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• Jun 29, 2013

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A HTTP_HOST rewrite will work if done logically.