This question should perhaps be asked directly to Google or on another forum, but as it might be a common problem also for umbraco-site-owners I put the question here. I am sure some Umbracian have the answer.
I have a site that initially ran with two hostnames (www.mysite.com and 2010.mysite.com) both was directed to the same root node. And Google search robot found out both of them so every page was indexed twice, (www.mysite.com/thispage and 2010.mysite.com/thispage).
Now I have disabled the 2010-hostname both in Umbraco and in IIS, and since the www-site in IIS has binding to [blank] it means that whenever one tries to open 2010.mysite.com/thispage he/she automatically gets the url www.mysite.com/thispage. So far so good.
I changed this over a week ago. But still the 2010-pages are indexed at Google. Can I just wait for it to be removed, or should I do something to make Google robot understand that the 2010... has been permanently replaced by www... ?
1) Setup a URL rewrite with a 301 perminant redirect from the one you don't want, to the one you do for all pages (URL Rewrite should be able to do this in one rule)
2) Install webmaster tools, and you should be able to tell google which site to prefer
If your not bothered about keeping the SEO your second domain has gained, you could just drop a robots.txt file in the root also preventing all search engines from indexing it.
I second the 301 redirect, it's the best way to keep the link-juice from the pages indexed under your subdomain. You can also request reconsideration of your site if you think your pagerank drops after: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration
I did not get the urlrewrite to do this for me, but it was easy to setup a subdomain site in iis7 with 301 redirect to the correct site. I firebugged and see the 301 moved permanently, so I just have to wait for the search engines to tidy upp now. Thanks again.
This is now quite ennoying, the temporary site is still indexed by google. I have the temporary site 301-redirected. And I emailed google (twice) about the site. Can not figure out how to get that site reconsideration. Now my next step will be to add a robots.txt with
User-agent: * Disallow: /
But the pages are already registred, will this make the current pages disappear?
Google search results
This question should perhaps be asked directly to Google or on another forum, but as it might be a common problem also for umbraco-site-owners I put the question here. I am sure some Umbracian have the answer.
I have a site that initially ran with two hostnames (www.mysite.com and 2010.mysite.com) both was directed to the same root node. And Google search robot found out both of them so every page was indexed twice, (www.mysite.com/thispage and 2010.mysite.com/thispage).
Now I have disabled the 2010-hostname both in Umbraco and in IIS, and since the www-site in IIS has binding to [blank] it means that whenever one tries to open 2010.mysite.com/thispage he/she automatically gets the url www.mysite.com/thispage. So far so good.
I changed this over a week ago. But still the 2010-pages are indexed at Google. Can I just wait for it to be removed, or should I do something to make Google robot understand that the 2010... has been permanently replaced by www... ?
Cheers
Jonas Eriksson
Hi Jonas,
I'd recommend a coupld of things.
1) Setup a URL rewrite with a 301 perminant redirect from the one you don't want, to the one you do for all pages (URL Rewrite should be able to do this in one rule)
2) Install webmaster tools, and you should be able to tell google which site to prefer
Matt
If your not bothered about keeping the SEO your second domain has gained, you could just drop a robots.txt file in the root also preventing all search engines from indexing it.
Matt
I second the 301 redirect, it's the best way to keep the link-juice from the pages indexed under your subdomain. You can also request reconsideration of your site if you think your pagerank drops after: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/reconsideration
Ok, thanks guys.
I did not get the urlrewrite to do this for me, but it was easy to setup a subdomain site in iis7 with 301 redirect to the correct site. I firebugged and see the 301 moved permanently, so I just have to wait for the search engines to tidy upp now. Thanks again.
You can also request removal from Google's search results using the URL removal tool in Webmaster Tools
https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/removals
Regards,
Kevin
Nice, I try that aswell, although it only mentions 404/410-statuses.
This is now quite ennoying, the temporary site is still indexed by google. I have the temporary site 301-redirected. And I emailed google (twice) about the site. Can not figure out how to get that site reconsideration. Now my next step will be to add a robots.txt with
But the pages are already registred, will this make the current pages disappear?
Regards
Jonas
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