• joeydav

    (@joeydav)


    My blog resides on an addon domain from another site. If anyone isn’t familiar with the concept, here’s a brief explanation: site.com allows me to set up addon domains that operate just like a domain but are actually subdomains. So my blog, blog.com, is actually blog.site.com – but no one can tell – except obviously Google.

    Suddenly several of my posts have been revealed to reside on a subdomain. People – if they google the right keyword – can find several posts on the domain blog.site.com.

    I need to prevent this.

    I set up a no index.nofollow meta tag in the header of my blog. I also put a robot.txt file in the folder my blog resides in on the server. Although this will destroy my presence in Google, it will solve the issue in the longterm.

    Another solution is to delete the pages that Google has indexed in the blog.site.com format. But how do you actually delete “pages” so the result is a “page not found” error. Just deleting the posts won’t achieve this.

    Any advice on any or all of this odd issue?

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  • Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    www.remarpro.com Admin

    Claim your site using Google Webmaster Tools here: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

    In there, you can do a lot of things, including setting up your preferred domain and such. You might be able to force Google to use your actual domain. Using a Google Sitemap to tell Google where the pages are could possibly help with that too.

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