Difference between Domain Forwarding & changing DNS

[naveed]

HI,

I want to know what is difference between Domain Forwarding & changing DNS enteries. Does search engines likes forwarding?

Thanks

[stalin12]

no they does not like forwarding

[SiberForum]

Does search engines likes forwarding?

Yes it does. Just make sure that 301 redirect is used. That is serverside redirect and that shouldn't hurt your SEO.

[jigyasa]

Domain Forwarding-
The forwarding of one domain name to another website URL or IP address. This allows more than 1 domain name to access the same website.

Changing DNS-
Any time you make a DNS (domain name server) change it takes around 24-48 hours to complete. During this proprogation time routers all over the world are updating their cache. This causes your site to be up and down randomly during the first 48 hours for different people at different times. Think of dns like a zip code. If you don't put a zip code on your mail the post office doesn't know where to send it. Domains are the same way if they don't have the DNS the internet doesn't know what server to send your request to.

[tomandrew]

Many humans acquaintance some abashing amid DNS settings and URL Forwarding setting.These two casework - DNS changes and URL forwarding in fact serve absolutely altered purposes. URL forwarding artlessly takes one URLto other.
DNS settings involve alteration the nameserver that contains the IP advertence for your domain. For instance, if you got a web page, you will requests for your domain to the hosting company's nameserver so that anyone trying to admission yourdomain.com is transferred to the actual IP.