Removing site subdomains from Google search

[QuantumWeb62]

Hi everyone,

I hope you are having a good week?

My website has several subdomains that I had shut down some time back and pages on these subdomains are still appearing in the Google search result pages.

I want all the URLs from these subdomains to stop appearing in the Google search result pages and I was hoping to see if anyone can help me with this.

The subdomains are no longer under my control as I don't have web hosting for these sites (so these subdomain sites just show a default hosting server page). Because of this, I cannot verify these in search console and submit a url/site removal request to Google.

In total, there are about 70 pages from these subdomains showing up in Google at the moment and I'm concerned in case these pages have any negative impacts on my SEO.

Thanks for taking the time to read my post.

[mrdavidingram]

Hi Andrew,

This can be solved, you have a couple of options:

• Do you have Google Analytics accounts for these subdomains? If so you could register search console via GA and remove the subdomains from there

• Even if you don't have web hosting for these subdomains, as long as you have control over the main domain you can still take control of these subdomains. Is the core domain still under your control? If so you can register for search console via the 'domain name provider' option.

Thanks,

David

[AndersS]

Hi Andrew,

Is it possible for you to have your hosting provider or domain registrar setup a redirect from the old subdomains to the current domain in use?

Best regards,
Anders

[MattRoney]

Hi Andrew! How is this going? We'd love an update!

[QuantumWeb62]

Hi David,

Thank you very much for sharing these options with me. I don't have Google Analytics for the subdomains so I tried the second option.

I selected 'domain name provider', went with 'other', and added a txt record to the DNS configuration for the main domain as per Google's instructions yesterday. I just checked the status a minute ago and I'm still seeing the verification failure message coming up as below:

"Your verification DNS TXT record was not found. You might need to wait a few minutes before Google sees your changes to the TXT records."

How long does it normally take to verify a property this way?

Thanks again David for your kind help.

[mrdavidingram]

Hi Andrew,

If you can send me the domain I'll have a look at the DNS and see if there's anything that looks unusual. Drop me a message on here, or email me on david@bringdigital.co.uk

Cheers

David