Duplicate Sub-domains Being Indexed

[EdwardDennis]

Hi all,

I have this site that has a sub-domain that is meant to be a "support" for clients. Some sort of FAQ pages, if you will. A lot of them are dynamic URLs, hence, the title and most of the content are duplicated.

Crawl Diagnostics found 52 duplicate content, 138 duplicate title and a lot other errors.

My question is, what would be the best practice to fix this issue? Should I noindex and nofollow all of its subdomains? Thanks in advance.

[OrionGroup]

How are all of these subdomains being created? Do you have just one subdomain you are worried about or multiple subdomains?

If you can do a robots.txt disallow on certain duplicate folders/files that you don't want indexed, that might help.

Let me know some more info first.

Scott.

[EdwardDennis]

The site has a few subdomains. For example (below examples are not my site):

- https://support.medialayer.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=view

- https://support.medialayer.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=9&nav=0

So basically, the pages got indexed, with the same title, and partial/whole duplicate content.

So, by simply making some changes on the robots.txt will fix this issue? Thanks.

[sprynewmedia]

If you don't want these indexed, first put a noindex tag on all pages.  Leave the follow alone as the engine still needs to find the pages to change the index status.

Add the domain to GWMT then request a removal all the pages.

Allow this to take effect then add a robots disallow to the entire sub-domain.

Your domain then be cleaned from the index and the duplication won't be an issue.

[EdwardDennis]

Thanks a lot! I will definitely try that.