Dear Friend,
Problems with Cloaked or Masked URL Redirection:-
Cloaked redirection is usually implemented by registrars and free URL redirection services by creating a dummy web page with a feature known as "frames". When your visitors type in your domain name, that dummy web page loads. The dummy web page is basically an empty page, with only the title of your site, supplied by you, possibly some meta tag information (also supplied by you), and either a "frame" or "iframe" (inline frame) that loads the real page from your website.
In general, frames are problematic beasts laden with usability, linking and search engine issues.
1) Usability
Depending on how the registrar has implemented the redirection facility, and how you have coded your own website, it is possible that by using cloaked redirection, your visitors may no longer be able to bookmark individual pages on your website. Even if they navigate to a page they like, and try to put the link into their "Favourites" ("favorites" in US English), all they will be doing is bookmarking your main domain address.
No doubt some of you are thinking that it doesn't really matter, since they have bookmarked your site anyway. Think again. One month down the line, when they click the bookmark and end up at your main page, they won't remember why they put it in their favourites in the first place since the page will not have the familiar content that led them to bookmark it. They'll simply delete the bookmark and move on. Driving users to a page they don't want to go is pointless.
2) Links to Your Website
Connected with the problem of bookmarking is the issue of how other sites are going to link to your pages. If you have compelling content on your site, many websites will want to link to the exact page that they found useful. Webmasters are more resourceful than your average user, so they will not be satisfied with the address they see in their browser address bar: one look and they will realise that your site has frames. They will then look for the real, correct URL to the specific page they want to link to and use that instead.
If your internal links to other pages on your site are coded so that they point to your actual address at your free web host, then websites that link to those pages will also point their links in the same way, that is, not at your domain name, but with your real URL.
This is a problem because when you change web hosts, you will lose all those links pointing at your site.
3) Search Engines
Your site is also unlikely to perform as well as it could in the search engines. Part of the problem is that even if there are links from other sites pointing directly to your domain, driving the search engine robots to your site, those links will point to the dummy web page set up by your domain name registrar. This is a problem, because, if you will recall, that dummy web page has no content for search engines to index.
As I mentioned in another article on search engine ranking, in order for your site to rank well for particular words or phrases, those words or phrases need to be present on your website.
When you use cloaked domain redirection, all your content is associated with your free web host's URL, not your own.
Hope it helps! Wish you good luck!!
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Dear Friend,
Problems with Cloaked or Masked URL Redirection:-
Cloaked redirection is usually implemented by registrars and free URL redirection services by creating a dummy web page with a feature known as "frames". When your visitors type in your domain name, that dummy web page loads. The dummy web page is basically an empty page, with only the title of your site, supplied by you, possibly some meta tag information (also supplied by you), and either a "frame"
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