User Comments

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   8/25/09

   jijosunny

   This happens for all.
   It takes time to appear in Google backlinks although you have some backlinks. If you want to understand the backlinks indexed by google, you can use Google Webmaster tools.
   
   Hope this will help you

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   8/25/09

   Doogz

   So web forwarding and masking shouldn't have an effect on finding backlinks then? Should I just sit and be patient?
   
   Thanks

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   1. 

      8/25/09

      husdal

      I'm not the expert, but I'd say it does have an effect. If you look at the source of any one of your forwarded pages it is basically empty. There is no content besides the masking frame. And Google has so far only indexed your front page and not very well:
      www.google.com/search?q=site:shutterspark.co.uk
      Your original site, on the other hand, is better indexed:
      www.google.com/search?q=site:shutter-spark.blogspot.com
      I would keep an eye on these, and if there's no improvement you know which is right or wrong.
      And why are you masking in the first place? If you went all the way to buy the domain, why not map it to your Blogger blog directly?
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   8/25/09

   Doogz

   I'm really new to this blogging malarkey so excuse my idiocy but what do you mean "map it to your Blogger blog directly"?
   
   Thanks

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      8/25/09

      husdal

      By that I mean not masking it as you have done.
      See the section on CNAME and ANAME in the link below
      www.google.com/support/blogger/bin/answer.py?answer=55373
      I know it's a lot of technobabble, but I hope you can make sense of it.
      
      Masking a domain is like wrapping a fancy plastic cover around the hardcover of an old book. If you do it as explained in the link above, you are essentially making a new hardcover for that old book. That is the 'proper' way of using your own domain.
      
      I assume that the registrar where you bought the domain has a domain management system that allows you to set the ANAME and the CNAME. If not, I suggest to move your domain to a different registrar.