Not sure if I'm in the correct place on the forum to write about this, but I have questions about a deleted subdomain that Google keeps indexing! It's driving me crazy! So years ago I decided to start a blog and create a subfolder called /blog/ where I hosted Wordpress software and then setup blog.mysite.com and made the document root /public_html/blog.
OK so that blog has come and gone and currently we no longer that Wordpress setup. Right now I have a blog at /blog/ and that's it.
The issue is that Google still indexes the .blog subdomain and it shows up in search results which makes no sense because when you click on blog.mysite.com the page says "This site can’t be reached" which to me means Google should no it's gone and stop trying to index it. To make matters worse, it's basically indexing all the pages on my main site as blog. urls too. So for instance, if I have mysite.com/customer-support/, I also see blog.mysite.com/customer-support/ which is the EXACT same site and causing me duplicate content!
Not sure how to correct this? I look in my sitemap and nowhere does it mention blog. so I don't know why Google is intrigued to crawl it. What should I do? Should I redirect .blog traffic to the homepage?
Thanks for any input.
