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Seeing Multiple Subdomains in Google Search Results

         

ivanvias

9:51 pm on Oct 30, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

When I do a search in my site such as:

site:firstname1lastname1.example.com firstname1 lastname1


I am getting results with multiple subdomains in them such as

firstname1lastname1.firstname2lastname2.firstname3lastname3.example.com/index.php?option=com_jfbconnect&task=loginFacebookUser&return=L2xhdGVzdC1vbmxpbmUtbWVtb3JpYWwtd2Vic2l0ZXM=
A description for this result is not available because of this site's robots.txt – learn more


I have about 5 pages of these results showin in google. So what i did is I have an htaccess rule that would automatically redirect to the firstname1.lastname1.example.com and in that page i have a Google No Follow - No Index Code so that these are removed from index.

However I noticed that they are still showing and they are not being removed. If i click on it i get a 500 error.


Do I need to take off the Disallow rule in my robots.txt so the crawler crawls them again?


I Have Disallow /index.php

Should I use another Disallow Rule and remove /index.php


Should I even have that disallow Rule in the first place? Cant we use the URL parameters tool in Webmaster tools to tell google not to crawl them.

phranque

10:25 pm on Oct 30, 2014 (gmt 0)

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google won't see the noindex if you exclude googlebot from crawling the URL.
if you get a 500 error you should check your web server error logs for clues.