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    • Godad
      Godad last edited by

      A few months ago I moved all my Wordpress images into a sub domain. After I purchased CDN service, I again moved that images to my root domain. I added User-agent: * Disallow: / to my CDN domain.

      But now, when I perform site search on the Google, I found that my CDN sub domains are indexed by the Google. I think this will make duplicate content issue. I already hit by the Panguin. How do I remove these search results on Google?

      Should I add my cdn domain to webmaster tools to request URL removal request?

      Problem is, If I use cdn.mydomain.com it shows my www.mydomain.com.

      My blog:- http://goo.gl/58Utt

      site search result:- http://goo.gl/ElNwc

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      • Mark_Ginsberg
        Mark_Ginsberg @Godad last edited by

        Hey,

        Glad to hear it worked out

        Mark

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        • Godad
          Godad @Mark_Ginsberg last edited by

          Update!

          Less than 12 hours my CDN domain de-indexed. Thanks Mark for your support!

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          • Mark_Ginsberg
            Mark_Ginsberg last edited by

            Blocking with robots.txt doesn't remove pages/files from the search engines, it only prevents them from crawling the subdomain. If they already crawled those resources, as they have in your case, the robots.txt will just block them from visiting it again, but will not remove them.

            What you should do is authenticate the subdomain with webmaster tools, and then remove the subdomain via the url removal tool, as you asked. This is the way to go about it.

            To verify the subdomain, there are multiple options, including via your host, or you can modify the dns to prove you own the subdomain - it really depends on your setup and what you need to do.

            But to remove these results permanently, with your robots.txt block, you should do it via the URL removal tool.

            Good luck,

            Mark

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