: Google Webmaster Tools - Search results are creating subdomained sites that don't exist I'm very confused and at a loss here, so bare with me. We were updating our Google search plugin for

@Lengel546

I'd suggest checking your server settings as well as see if you can find any links to those subdomains. I've see in the past where poorly configured servers will show a 200 OK status on any URL as long as portions of the URL are correct (IE food.domain.com/123, fod.domain.com/123 etc. will all return a 200 status and the same content). This can also happen via the URL mapping systems in some coding frameworks.

Since they are all common misspellings of the actual URL it would be very easy for someone to add a link to the misspelled URL by accident (and have it render properly for them so they don't ever notice the misspelling). Then viola Google follows the link and indexes made up subdomains.

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@Nimeshi995

The Googlebot will automatically try to create shortcuts from links that it thinks will be helpful to visitors and then lists them in the search results. See this for more information: Sitelinks

As indicated there, you can simply "Demote" the sitelink URL's you don't want displayed in the search results:

Webmaster Tools -> Configuration -> Sitelinks -> Demote this sitelink URL

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