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    • fishsmith
      fishsmith last edited by

      The report is returning errors for both demo.xxxxxxxx.com and www.xxxxxxx.com I don't want it to crawl our demo site. We have multiple versions for each product release and returning 28,000 duplicate pages is not helpful.

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      • ATP
        ATP last edited by

        Hi Jason,

        First, just to check, is google indexing and crawling to demo.xxx.com? If it is then you will have duplicate content and you will need to do more than just stop moz crawling it.

        However, if it is just Moz crawling it...

        Navigate to the robots.txt within the root directory of the sub-domain (demo.xxx.com) and add the lines

        User-Agent: rogerbot
        Disallow: /

        That will stop good old roger from crawling over demo.xxx.com

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