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What to do about nonindexed subdomain

by acv987
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I recently started working for a new company and have been trying to help out with the website. Its a really mess. The company has a main site insertcompany dot com They also have an online catalog that is linked to thier inventory system. The address for the catalog is catalog dot insertcompany dot com. Google has indexed most paged for the main site but nothing for the catalog. How do I fix this? I googled this all day and could not come up with anything. Maybe I was not using the right terms.
#nonindexed #subdomain
  • Profile picture of the author UMS
    How long has the sub-domain been around?
    Are there any links to it?
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  • Profile picture of the author acv987
    The main site has been around for about 10 years the subdomain 2 or 3 years. I guess the solution might be to submit a site map of the catalog site. I think its just set up weird. The main site is done within joomla and the catalog is not part of the installation. It seems to be a stand alone portion. I just went through the sitemap I created through a joomla plugin and the catalog is not included. I guess I kind of answered my own question. I will have to do some further investigating to see where exactly the catalog is hosted, and how I can create a sitemap for it.
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  • Profile picture of the author acv987
    Thanks a lot for your response by the way, I appreciate it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Dybka
    Check your meta settings,look in your sites source code for something like,

    <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

    you could be blocking spiders from indexing your site.

    Steve
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  • Profile picture of the author acv987
    Ok sorry im basically a rookie with SEO. The catalog is indexed if i do a site: search on google. How do I get the search engines to understand that they catalog. site is the same as the main site? I guess what im looking for is when I go to webmaster tools for my www site Shouldn't I see all of the catalog pages being indexed as well?
    Im sorry for the noob questions. I was hired to fix PCs and upgrade software and kind of got dumped into the website as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author ArcherWylde
    Each subdomain is considred a separate website, by Google anyways. You can end up with different PageRanks for the top level "www" vs the "catalog"

    I would create a separate site-map for the catalog and submit it separately in web master tools. That way you can verify whether or not those pages are being indexed.
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