Google indexing my site as a full domain plus subdomain (Hosted as add-on domain)

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by John D, Apr 9, 2013.

  1. #1
    Hey,

    I have one main domain, lets say domain.com and then I have my other sites in subdirectories sub.domain.com and they with otherdomain.com

    Google has otherdomain.com indexed fully, but it also has a duplicate listing/indexing with the site also showing up as otherdomain.domain.com

    Can I stop this as I'm sure it isn't helping having it indexed twice..

    Thanks
     
    John D, Apr 9, 2013 IP
  2. JiniOnline

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    #2
    Not able to get your point.
    Can you please clarify it more?
     
    JiniOnline, Apr 9, 2013 IP
  3. John D

    John D Well-Known Member

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    I have my domain hosted in a subdirectory of 1 of my sites:

    sub.domain.com

    Google is indexing sub.domain.com and listing it in results.
    sub.domain.com directory has its own domain - otherdomain.com (Hosted as an add-on domain to domain.com)

    Google is also showing the same pages from sub.domain.com and otherdomain.com in the results - So duplicating all pages twice
     
    John D, Apr 9, 2013 IP
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    It means, both the domains have same root directory?
    Then it is obvious that the pages under the root directory will be indexed for both the domains. You should separate the root directory for both the domains.
     
    JiniOnline, Apr 9, 2013 IP
  5. John D

    John D Well-Known Member

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    But the domain is hosted as an add-on domain, so it has to have its own directory in a subdirectory of the main domain, ie add-on-domain.maindomain.com

    The directory add-on-domain is the root directory of the other site
     
    John D, Apr 9, 2013 IP
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    There is only option to prevent crawler to make duplicate entries is to separate the root folder for both the domains.
     
    JiniOnline, Apr 10, 2013 IP