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---- Ranking drop for duplicate content in regional subdomains


activeco - 8:55 am on Aug 14, 2008 (gmt 0)


Or make additional .htaccess rules:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^([^.]+)\.yoursite\.com$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^robots.txt$ /norobots.txt [L]

Which should rewrite all requests for robots.txt in any subdomain except www to norobots.txt file.

norobots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /


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