Transfer domain question

[jlcnuke]

I transferred a domain to my existing bluehost account.
When accessing these pages to test I'm showing it as a subdirectory meaning
I used to go to my old site at www.oldsite.com but now it's showing as a subdirectory in my current site instead of it's own.
i.e. www.currentsite.com/oldsitename/index.html

How can I get it to show as www.oldsitename.com/index.html again?

[areidmtm]

it may take up to 72 hours for the domain to propagate to bluehost servers.

[stew1111]

My sister is unhappy with the service she received from a company that she paid to build a site for her.
There are no meta-tags and the traffic has been dismal for the last 4 years.
This year she has had less than 500 visits!
(I generated 150 of those by listing her in Kijiji in September and October).

My questions are:

How does she get the person who "maintains" her site to transfer it to me and BH?

What is the process?

If they do transfer it - will I get the files so that I may make changes and updates to it?

Do I need to know what it was built with in order to make changes?

She sent them a cheque to pay for a year of hosting, hopefully they will give her a refund for the unearned months of hosting.

Any advice would be helpful.

Stew
(Just joined the forum)

[Early Out]

There's really no way to answer some of those questions. It all depends on what kind of agreement your sister had with the people who built the site. If they retained the rights to what they created, you get nothing from them if you decide to go elsewhere.

If the rights to the site code pass to your sister, she'll be able to grab the pages, but maintaining them will require some knowledge of whatever package was used to create them. Usually, site-building software creates code that's very difficult to maintain manually.

The process of transferring to BH is not overly complex. Your sister's domain is registered somewhere - all she needs to do is sign up with BH, then set the nameservers on her domain registration to ns1.bluehost.com and ns2.bluehost.com, which tells the rest of the world that the pages are now hosted on BH. She could transfer the domain registration itself to BH (if it's one of the domains for which BH can act as registrar, namely .com, .net, .org, .biz, .info, and .us), but it's not necessary.

By the way, most search engines pretty much ignore meta tags. That's not how you get traffic. You get traffic by having good content, and by having other sites link to yours.

[stew1111]

Thank you for the help.

Does she have to sign up with BH when she transfers her domain or could I host her domain from my BH account?

Stew

[felgall]

Any domains registered with BlueHost that are to be used with a particular hosting account need to be attached to the domain manager for that account.