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Controlling a Subdomain with robots.txt - WebmasterWorld

Hi, I have some rules that create virtual subdomains which is working fine. I have a main domain and a robots.txt file that i would also ...

You can serve a different robots.txt file based on the subdomain through which the site has been accessed. One way of doing this on Apache ...

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I have dev.example.com and www.example.com hosted on different subdomains. I want crawlers to drop all records of the dev subdomain but keep ...

Is it possible to block an entire subdomain with robots.txt? I write for a blog that has their root domain as well as a subdomain pointing ...

The robots.txt file needs to go in the top level directory of you webserver. If your main domain and each subdomain are on different vhosts ...

Since robots.txt files impact crawling, it's important for site owners to understand how they are treated by search engines.

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Subdomains are treated as a different sites. You can use the same code (Disallow: / ) but make sure it works with "subdomain . mywebsite . com/ ...

The quick and dirty answer is yes. Spiders treat subdomains as separate website, and similar to how you create a unique robots.txt for each ...

then use the URL removal tool in Google Search Console to remove the entire subdomain from being visible in search.