Hello George, Thank you for fast answer! I read that article and there is some issue with that. if you can see at it, i'd really appreciate it. So the problem is that if i do it directly from Tumblr, it will also block it from Tumblr users. Here is the note right below that option "Allow this blog to appear in search results":
"This applies to searches on Tumblr as well as external search engines, like Google or Yahoo."

Also, if i do it from GWT, i'm very concerned to remove URLs with my subdomain because i afraid it will remove all my domain. For example, my domain is abc.com and the Tumblr blog is setup on tumblr.abc.com. So i afraid if i remove tumblr.abc.com from index, it will also remove my abc.com. Please let me know what you think.

Thank you!

Hi guys, I read your conversation. I have similar issue but my situation is slightly different. I'll really appreciate if you can help with this. So i have also a subdomain that i don't want to be indexed by Google. However, that subdomain is not in my control. I mean, i created subdomain on my hosting but it is pointing to my Tumblr blog. So i don't have access to its robot txt. So can anybody advise what can i do in this situation to noindex that subdomain?

Thanks

Hi guys, I appreciate your responses! ThompsonPaul, can you show me an example of correct code of how to make such a redirect? Thank you!

Peter, i'm trying to PM you but i have no idea what to place in the "recepient" field. Thank you for assistance.

Hello Peter, thank you for helping!

Peter, why do you say that neither Moz nor Webmaster Tools are going to detect the duplicates between your subdomain and Tumblr? MOZ is detecting it now. Can you more elaborate on it?

THanks

Hi Patric,

Thanks for answer! So it is just regular 301 redirect? I'm asking because once i redirected /index.php to preferred home page version (www.mydomain.com) of another site and that site went down. I'm not sure if i did it wrong (i don't think so coz it is a simple thing) but i affraid it will happen here as well. Do you have any input here?

Thanks

Hi guys,

I'm having a question, answer to which i'm unable to find anywhere. I browesed the whole internet lol. So the question is about multipple versions of the home page. In particular, i want to know how should i deal with home page URLs with this extention: /index.html

All the rest possible versions of home page i know how to deal with but this one "/index.html" i don't. I did add a cononical tag to it but i'm wondering whether or not i should add 301 redirect to chosen version og the home page (let's say it is www.mydomain.com). Please advise the best practices on how to deal with this.

Thanks in advance!

Hello Kane,

Thank you for trying to help me!

I added a link to three screenshots. Two of them are from my MOZ account showing exponential increase of duplicate content and the second one is the subdomain where that duplicate content is coming from. The third screenshot is from my gmail account showing notification from GWT about deep links issue. I'm not sure whether these two issues have anything in common but i fell that they do. Please let me know what you think.

Thanks

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Thank you for help!
Answering your questions:

1. My subdomain look like this: photos.domain.com and it was poined to Tumblr platform (our blog on Tumblr) because it is very image-fiendly platform as well as they host all the images.

2. We use this subdomain only for images posting. We don't use this content on our root domain at all.

I'm really confused what Android app they are talking about. Do the consider Tumblr as Android app?

Thanks

Thank you for replies!

I'm fairly well aware about duplicate content issue but i have never faced such particular issue. As Lesley said i don't have access to head sections of each post because those posts are practically not on my property but on Tumblr's. And i have no idea how it is created. I assume that it is cause by Tumblr's feature that allows users to re-blog my blog posts.

Moreover, i've just received a warning from Google Webmaster Tools specifically pertaining this subdomain. I'm really confused. Please help

Fix app deep links to ....com/ that dont match the content of the web pages

Dear webmaster

When indexing the deep links to your app, we detected that the content of 1 app pages doesnt match the content of the corresponding web page. This is a bad experience for your users because they wont find what they were looking for on your app page. We wont show deep links for these app pages in our smartphone search results. This is an important issue that needs your immediate attention.

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Take these actions to fix this issue:

• Check the Android Apps section of the Crawl Errors report in Webmaster Tools to find examples of app URIs whose content doesnt match their corresponding web page.
• Use these examples to debug the issue:

1. Open the corresponding web page to have it ready.
2. Use Android debug bridge to open the app page.
3. Make sure the content on both your web page and your app page is the same.
4. If necessary, change the content on your app (or change your sitemap / or rel=alternate element associations to make sure the each app page is connected to the right web page).
5. If necessary, change your robots.txt file to allow crawling of relevant resources. This mismatch might also be due to the fact that some of the resources associated with the app page are disallowed from crawling though robots.txt.

Hello Lesley,

Thank you for response! Well, the subdomain is pointing to our Tumblr blog. I have access to both main domain and Tumblr. Where should i add canonical?Thanks

Hello guys, i have a question about duplicate content. Recently I noticed that MOZ's system reports a lot of duplicate content on one of my sites. I'm a little confused what i should do with that because this content is created automatically. All the duplicate content comes from subdomain of my site where we actually share cool images with people. This subdomain is actually pointing to our Tumblr blog where people re-blog our posts and images a lot.

I'm really confused how all this duplicate content is created and what i should do to prevent it. Please tell me whether i need to "noindex", "nofollow" that subdomain or you can suggest something better to resolve that issue.

Thank you!