How to exclude a specific subdomain from SEOMoz Campaign?

[ahockley]

Forgive me if I've overlooked something obvious, but how can I exclude a subdomain from a campaign?  I want to crawl/analyze mywebsite.com, but not subdomain.mywebsite.com

Thanks in advance...

[AgentsofValue]

Hi there,

On the campaign setup, you are given 3 options there:

subdomain, root domain and subfolder.

Try to change the setting to root domain so that only the mywebsite.com will be crawled and analyzed.

Hope that helps!

[JoelDay]

Hey Aaron,

Thanks for the question!
The way to do that would be to actually set a robots.txt file under that subdomain and block the user-agent: RogerBot with a Disallow: /

That will let our crawler run loose in your site without touching that subdomain.

I hope that helps. Let me know if you need anything else.
Cheers,
Joel.

[ahockley]

Thanks Joel.  Unfortunately this particular subdomain is a CNAME to a hosted service where I don't have the ability to update a robots.txt file.  Are there any other options?

[JoelDay]

Hey Aaron,

An other option would be dependent on how the site is setup. If you want to block the one subdomain and everything else exists on another, you could set your campaign up as a subdomain campaign for the one you want to crawl.

The downside is that if the site is spread among several subdomains you want to crawl you won't get everything.

I hope that works out for you.
Cheers,
Joel.

[ahockley]

I have an existing campaign setup, is there a way to change it to only the root domain at this point?

[Peterli]

Hi there Aaron,

Thanks for the question, at this point we do not have that feature built into the campaign feature.  We are hoping to add that to a future version of the tool, however we don't have a firm ETA.  If you like to be kept in the loop you could subscribe to us on our FB page or our Twitter @SEOmoz

Best,

Peter
SEOmoz Help Team.

[cloudhopping]

Has this option been enabled as of yet?  to change?

[ben.heyworth]

We're curious as well. This would be a feature that we would like to see.