Should i keep my mirror site ?

Hi all,

I had my most important web site placed at my internetprovider and registered my domainname there too. Recently they told me they would stop the domain registering, so i had to move my domainname to the hosting service i already used with my other web sites.

So... now i have a mirror site, at my internet provider and the Hosting service.

Question:
is it good for anything ?? or is it even bad because Google finds all those links suddenly pointed at my new ( a second) web site place... ??

Thanks !

If the domain name is the same, then it does not matter.

So long as you can't get to the site through two separate domains, then you don't actually have a mirror site.

No, not through two domains, but lots of pages still remain in Googles cache with the exact -old- location on that server.

So it's good for nothing :-)
Thanks.

What do you mean old location?

The server a website is on will not matter 99% of the time outside of load issues. If all you did was host the site with a different server and change the DNS records to point to the new server, then as far as Google is concerned - nothing changed.

Old location is at my internet provider/server.

>>If all you did was host the site with a different server and change the DNS records to point to the new server, then as far as Google is concerned - nothing changed.<<

That's what i did.
So i can leave that duplicate site for people landing on the pages in Google's cache with that old server location i guess. Don't know where they come from, i must have used that location myself instead of my domainname <8-]

Thanks.

Oh, if it was at your old server ip address, then G indexed that version instead. If that's the case, you may stand to lose some of the rankings G had for you where the ip address was used instead of the domain name, but these should eventually come back so long as they weren't from links actually pointing to the ip address.

Most of the time this is caused by a server configuration error. It's more common with smaller hosts, like your local ISP in your case.

Good thing to get away from, though, since it's best to actually see your domain name in the address bar, that way users actually know where they are.

So, the question still remains: should i keep that version ? as long as G has links with the old server ip address i'm going to loose visitors when that version is gone, if i leave it it's going to get indexed over and over again ?

Gr.
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