Question about "Settings –> Privacy" subsites

  • Resolved wijngaarde

    (@wijngaarde)


    12 years, 10 months ago

    Hello everybody,

    I’m new to using a WordPress Network. But I have everything up and running now.

    I have a website business and offer my clients a few themes to choose from. So all network subdomains I’ve configured consist of example sites.

    I want search engines to index only my “main website” (full domain). Not my subdomains.

    What I wanted to know is: if I would select under “settings –> Privacy” within my “network subdomain site” that searchengines are not allowed to index this site. And I would do this on all my network subdomain sites, but not on my “main website”, will this influence my ranking negatively for my main website in search engines?

    Does anyone have some experience in this area?

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    I want search engines to index only my “main website” (full domain). Not my subdomains.

    Eeeeh. You can use privacy and ask them not to, but it depends on the search engine. Some are good, some aren’t.

    ‘Best’ way is via robots.txt. If you use a plugin to control separate robots persite, you can use that. If you can’t, useing .htaccess will let you redirect robots persite.

    RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^demo\.example\.com
RewriteRule ^robots\.txt$ robots-demo\.txt

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^demo2\.example\.com
RewriteRule ^robots\.txt$ robots-demo2\.txt
    Thread Starter wijngaarde

    (@wijngaarde)

    Thanks Ipstenu so far!

    But what I really want to know is if privacy settings from subdomains effect the SEO of my mainwebsite.

    For example:

    My main website is: https://www.domain.com
    And I have a networksite: https://theme1.domain.com

    So I want https://theme1.domain.com not to be indexed by search engines and therefore set the privacy settings on “do not index”.

    But on the main website https://www.domain.com I set the privacy settings on “index this website” because I will do all my SEO efforts on this site.

    Will the fact that I’ve set the privacysettings on https://theme1.domain.com on “do not index”, influence my SEO negativly with for example google on the main website https://www.domain.com?

    Hope you understand what I mean, if not let me know!

    Thanks in advance!!

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    But what I really want to know is if privacy settings from subdomains effect the SEO of my mainwebsite.

    They don’t ??

    Each site is separate.

    Thread Starter wijngaarde

    (@wijngaarde)

    Ipstenu thanks!

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