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    • VinceWicks
      VinceWicks last edited by

      My sit is http://www.webdesign.org/, but the other day I found these sites that have duplicates of my original site:

      <a>http://wordpresswww.webdesign.org/</a><a>http://fdsfsdswww.webdesign.org/</a><a>http://gfdgdfgdfgwordpresswww.webdesign.org/</a><a>http://w54354353w.webdesign.org/</a>http://wojhkhjkhw.webdesign.org/What really freaks me out is that the content on those sites is 100% up to date. Same as on http://www.webdesign.org/. Now here's my question. 1. Since my site http://www.webdesign.org/ is the root domain, I take it that I can somehow disable those sites (subdomains) from my domain 'admin panel' or what not?2. If you can use those subdomains even if you don't own the root domain (http://www.webdesign.org/), it looks that some negative SEO has been done to my site?Which of my assumptions are right? Please help me to figure that out.

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      • gazzerman1
        gazzerman1 last edited by

        Nice site and domain name!

        hmm looks, like any subdomain works on your site, I would fix that ASAP. It looks like it redirects to the root folder that's why it shows the most current content. (because it is)

        You Need to turn off / disable Wildcard Subdomains on your server. This will fix the issue.

        This might just be robots digging around trying new things out for example http://1234567.webdesign.org/ does the same thing and I just made that up.

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        • VinceWicks
          VinceWicks last edited by

          Gary, you made my day! Thanks a lot. Now I know what i need to do.

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