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    • JohnHuynh
      JohnHuynh last edited by

      When develop site, I have a test domain is sandbox.abc.com, this site contents are same as abc.com.

      But, now I search site:sandbox.abc.com and aware of content duplicate with main site abc.com

      My question is how to remove all this link from goolge.

      p/s: I have just add robots.txt to sandbox and disallow all pages.

      Thanks,

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      • JohnHuynh
        JohnHuynh last edited by

        Thanks Chirag Nirmal,

        I have redirected 301 successfully. This is great solution.

        Thank you!

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        • ChiragNirmal
          ChiragNirmal @JohnHuynh last edited by

          Hmmm.. I think its the IP address of your computer i.e. goto http://whatismyipaddress.com/  and get your IP address and use it below.

          RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^123.45.67.8
          RewriteRule (.*) http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/$1 [R=301,L]

          I am sorry, not much of an Apache expert.

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          • JohnHuynh
            JohnHuynh last edited by

            Thanks for you help?

            Is the IP address you mentioned is my localhost? i.e. My sandbox IP address is 123.45.67.8
            The redirect 301 should be:

            RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} ^123.45.67.8
            RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
            RewriteRule /* http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/ [R,L]

            or

            RewriteCond %{REMOTE_HOST} !^123.45.67.8
            RewriteRule (.*) http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/$1 [R=301,L]

            Am I right?

            Thanks,

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            • ChiragNirmal
              ChiragNirmal last edited by

              Please see https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47334

              You can demote up to 100 URLs, and demotions are effective for 90 days from your most recent visit to the Sitelinks page in Webmaster Tools.

              If I were you, then on http://sandbox.vietnamvisacorp.com/  I would put a 301 redirect based on ip address on all pages.

              This will redirect all users to http://www.vietnamvisacorp.com/ based on ip address, i.e. if IP address = your ip then don't redirect otherwise redirect.

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              • JohnHuynh
                JohnHuynh last edited by

                Thank you my friends. I could not understand denote a site link.

                I want to denote all site link in site:http://sandbox.vietnamvisacorp.com/

                How to denoted all in this:

                • For For this search result field: ???

                • For Demote this sitelink URL field: ???

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                • ChiragNirmal
                  ChiragNirmal last edited by

                  If you are webmaster, you can demote the unwanted content using google web master tools.

                  Configuration -> Sitelinks-> Demote this sitelink URL:

                  And obviously, keep updating robots.txt moving forward.

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                  • PaddyDisplays
                    PaddyDisplays last edited by

                    "p/s: I have just add robots.txt to sandbox and disallow all pages."

                    That will do it, just have to wait till google picks up on those instructions (might take a while)

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