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Subdomain and crawl problem?

by samsosa
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Hello Warriors!

We have a website with a well established domain name (say, example.com) that has a lot of inbound links and a high page rank. We created a subdomain (subdomain.example.com) to host a set of new pages (local business profiles). We prefer to keep these new pages separately from the main domain to keep it safe from Google penalties. The root of the subdomain (http://subdomain.example.com/) redirects to the root of the main domain (Example Domain), and the pages on the subdomain (e.g., http://subdomain.example.com/page1.html) were submitted to Google in a sitemap.

Submission went through just fine. It's been a couple of days and Google hasn't crawled any of the pages yet. Is this a viable setup? What else can we do to make Google index the pages faster?
#crawl #problem #subdomain
  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Add an xml sitemap for the sub-domain to the root domain robots.txt file, even If it's only temporary to get Google to notice the new sub-domain/pages.

    BTW, don't count on Google ignoring a sub or root domain If the other one does get slapped. Google can lump sub-domains in with root domain site:domain.com searches so they obviously know it's the same person behind each site. Plus it's a sub-domain, there's obviously going to be a root domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author TrafficMystic
    adding links to the main domain that point to the subdomain will also get it indexed
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    [Link Alchemist] YOU ARE WASTING 80% Of Your SEO Efforts.. And you don't realise it!!!!
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