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How to remove my former sites off search engines?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by abrodski, Feb 3, 2016.

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    Hello!

    I have this little problem. A few years ago, I had couple of sites, then I closed them. But back then the search engines added those sites of mine into their databases. It's Google and Chinese Baidu. And now their bots query my DNS server for non-existent sites. The complication is this... I've got a working website today. Let's call it site.com And those non-existent sites are like that: forum.site.com (my site's subdomains).

    The traffic is not significant. But why to have it on a daily basis? As far as I see it, there are two ways to possibly deal with it:
    a) An administrative way, ie., to contact somehow the search engines and ask them nicely to remove those sites off their db's;
    b.) A technical way, ie., to deal with it myself with some BIND9 configuration.
    But I just don't know how to approach the issue, frankly.
     
    abrodski, Feb 3, 2016 IP
  2. LinkGenie

    LinkGenie Active Member

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    Redirect all traffic from sub-domains to main site. You can do this from .htaccess file.
     
    LinkGenie, Feb 9, 2016 IP
  3. iwebsocial

    iwebsocial Well-Known Member

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    Yes. redirect your all old site urls to your new website using 301 redirect. It won't hurt your site SEO and Google will update your url. Hope this will help you.
     
    iwebsocial, Feb 10, 2016 IP
  4. Neeraj Dhiman

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    Hi,

    Log in to webmaster tool and then disavow the links of old website.
     
    Neeraj Dhiman, Feb 10, 2016 IP
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    Hello,
    I did the same, but one more doubt.
    I wrote 301Redirection in htaccess yet this is enough or should I need to keep the actual page alive with redirection codes to a new page.

    Recently I created a Sub-domain for Mobile Version since Jun 2015 and in this month, I created Responsive design and I planned to removed that sub-domain.
    I just added 301Redirection codes in htaccess and also I wrote 301Redirection codes in all files.
    For Example, if there is 56php files, then I opened every file and wrote redirection code. Even though I had same in htaccess.
     
    myilraj, Feb 11, 2016 IP
  6. ZoeJohnson

    ZoeJohnson Peon

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    Use URL removal tool of Google webmaster
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    ZoeJohnson, Feb 11, 2016 IP
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    myilraj Member

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    @Zoe Johnson - - I want to remove my entire Sub-domain starts with m.mydomain.com
    I tried but there is no option like URL removal page as you shown here.
    Could you just let me know breadcrumb link..
     
    myilraj, Feb 11, 2016 IP
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    ZoeJohnson Peon

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    pls login to webmaster first and go to google.com/webmasters/tools/removals?pli=1
     
    ZoeJohnson, Feb 11, 2016 IP
  9. myilraj

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    Thank you, I will check it out.
    Will reply you sooner
     
    myilraj, Feb 11, 2016 IP