How do you tell SEOmoz to ignore a subdomain?

[wcsjohn]

We have a subdomain that I don't want to show up in our root SEOmoz campaign.  How do I tell SEOmoz to ignore it?

[KeriMorgret]

Hi John,

You'll want to enter the www.example.com in the campaign, so we crawl JUST the www subdomain. We don't often think of it this way, but www is a subdomain.

[wcsjohn]

That is actually what I want.  How is that done?

[JoelDay]

Hi John,

Thanks for the question.
Unfortunately though, there is no way to have one campaign specifically ignore a single subdomain and still crawl all other subdomains.

It would be possible to set two subdomain campaigns if your site was set as such:

www.example.com
blog.example.com

But anything outside of either of those subdomains would not be touched.

Thanks,
Joel.

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Ah, misunderstood you. I don't think what you are trying to do is possible but you should ask someone who works for SEOMoz to confirm.

[wcsjohn]

But I want the subdomain to be craweled, just under a different SEOmoz campaign.  Blocking it in the robots.txt file will prevent that.

[OlegKorneitchouk]

Well the subdomain should have its own folder where you can create you own robots.txt file for. That would only block the subdomain from being crawled.

If you don't have a separate folder, check out this Q&A.

[wcsjohn]

That would prevent SEOmoz from crawling it completely.  I don't want that.  I want the subdomain to be crawled under a different campaign. I want the data for the subdomain, but the number of pages is much greater than the root domain, and is just a lot of noise when looking at the root domain.  It's drowning it out.  SEOmoz has no option to control this?

[OlegKorneitchouk]

You can block the SEOmoz spider via robots.txt on the subdomain

<code>User-agent: rogerbot 
Disallow: /</code>