forwarding domain-name-address to mask free-hosted-website-address

Wed., Mar. 21 2007 11:00 pm EST

I read the rules and hope I wrote the following correctly, etc. And I hope the example-to-apparently-nowhere-links are no problem.

The address of my website is like http://titleofsite.freehostservice.net
(I wrote the html code, and have had no recent problems with the code. I submitted the site to dmoz over 30 days ago and haven't been included yet, even though I was included years ago before I took the site off the internet.)

I bought a domain name recently, so the new address would be like this of course - http://www.titleofsite.com . I'll be staying with the free host service my website is on (up and running on), yet I'd like to be included in dmoz and other search directories with no problems ("forwarding and masking" are new concepts to me).

At dmoz when submitting the site under general--less general--more specific--even more specific--submit
it's written on the submit page, under the box where you type in the main pages url, 4th instruction
"Do not submit any site with an address that redirects to another address."

1. I was wondering what this means exactly? and

2. if dmoz would accept something like http://www.titleofsite.com
to mask http://titleofsite.freehostservice.net ?

3. I don't think I have to, yet I'm still wondering if I might have to change any absolute addresses within the html like on the index page, " <base href="http://titleofsite.freehostservice.net/index.html" /> "?

4. And I'm wondering if I have to change the addresses in my urllist.txt file (an url list of all my webpages and images, so search indexes like Yahoo! can more easily index the site).
example 1 - http://titleofsite.freehostservice.net/index.html to http://www.titleofsite.com/index.html ?
example 2 - http://titleofsite.freehostservice.net/image.jpg to http://www.titleofsite.com/image.jpg ?

Appreciate it

>1. I was wondering what this means exactly?
See #2.

>2. if dmoz would accept something like http://www.titleofsite.com
to mask http://titleofsite.freehostservice.net ?
It means precisely that that is not acceptable. I understand why some people do it (there are some legitimate reasons, and there are some extremely unethical reasons). But whatever reasons the webmaster has, do not apply to the ODP. The ODP doesn't list redirector links, period, for reasons of its own, which are sufficient to override any other considerations.

>3. I don't think I have to, yet I'm still wondering if I might have to change any absolute addresses within the html like on the index page, " <base href="http://titleofsite.freehostservice.net/index.html" /> "?
No. Whether you do, or don't, it has nothing to do with any of the other questions, or with the ODP.

>4. And I'm wondering if I have to change the addresses in my urllist.txt file (an url list of all my webpages and images, so search indexes like Yahoo! can more easily index the site).
You'll have to take that question up with Yahoo and the other search indexes like that. We don't know or care how they handle redirecting.

Wed., Mar. 21 2007 12:45 pm EST

Thanks Hutcheson for telling me info about redirector links. So that would have been a redirector link or a type of redirector link. And I heard something about fraudulent domain names going to fraudulent websites. I've decided to keep the address like http://titleofsite.freehostservice.net probably for good. I don't think the 2 domain names I bought will end up being that important. It would be important though to be included in the dmoz director again.

Appreciate it