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Awesome, good to know things are all okay!

And everything looks okay in your GWT?

Hi Ehren,

Google has said that they send those warnings before they actually crawl your site (why they would bother you with a warning so quickly, I don't know), so I wouldn't worry about this if the warning is the only sign you're getting that Google might be crawling disallowed pages.

What is your Google Webmaster Tools account saying? If Google isn't reporting to you that it's spending too long crawling your site, and the correct number of pages are indexed, you should be fine.

Let me know if this is a bigger problem!

Kristina

Hi Brandon,

Just wanted to check in - did using 1 sitemap work?

Kristina

Hi,

Google is very aware of ads, so it's entirely possible that Google is aware that that subdomain is for ads only, and isn't indexing it anyway.

To see if Google is indexing it, go to Google and type in "site:ads.domain" to see if it's indexed. If it isn't, Google won't find any results.

If you want to remove that subdomain from Google's index, you won't be able to add it as a URL parameter in Webmaster Tools, since it's an entire URL. Instead, remove it from the index with robots.txt. Google explains how to do that here.

Last, and we have to say this as SEOs, there's a good chance you are or will be penalized for using most of your homepage for ads! We'd strongly recommend that you remove some, or add some more content so that the majority of your homepage is unique content. At the very least, move most ads below the fold.

Hope this helps! Follow up if you have any more questions,

Kristina

Of course! Glad I could help.

Once your trial runs out, you won't be able to respond, but at least you'll still be able to see my answer!

I think you can use the .htaccess file redirect command:

Redirect 301 /location/from/root/file.ext http://www.othersite.com/new/file/location.xyz

So, it should be:

Redirect 301 /index.php http://mysite.com

Redirect 301 / http://mysite.com

If that doesn't work, here's someone with the same problem on StackExchange.

P.S. Glad you like the Distilled course.

Hey David,

Just wanted to follow up with you on this - did TextMarketing's method work?