Is it a good idea or a bad idea? See if you can understand my situation: Say I own main.com and have hosting for it, and I also want to start 2 new websites called yes.com and no.com. I add yes/no.com as add-on domains to my hosting account and they get their own subdirectories, but they're also automatically added as subdomains yes.main.com and no.main.com. What can I do to stop the subdomains from showing up in search results (I don't wanna use em at all), and would this be adequate or horrendous for SEO?
I am not sure if I understand you, but if you mean that you can host more than one domain on the one hosting account, then you have to make a new folder in your root directory and point that new domain name to the folder. So if you have main.com hosted in the root directory, and you make a folder in the root directory called "yes" and point yes.com to root-directory/yes/ then that is fine.. and will be treated as a separate domain.. hope that is what you meant Cheers James
yes thats what I mean, but my host also automatically makes the /yes/ directory accessible from the subdomain yes.main.com. I don't want people to be able to use yes.main.com- only yes.com.
You could possibly add them to deny in robots.txt or create a .htaccess file which restricts access and gives the 403 error. I would probably use them both to be safe.
I am not sure about a automatic sub domain, but I guess that if there are no links pointing to yes.main.com then it will never be found. It is the same if you were to go to main.com/yes/ would give you the same as yes.com. but if there are no links pointing to main.com/yes/ from anywhere then no one will ever no it is there! Cheers James
You're http://dcellphone.cellphone-news.com/ link automatically directs to dcellphone.com. Did you set it up that way or does the automatic subdomain just work like that?