: Subdomain accidentaly got indexed on Google I have main domain example.com and subdomain called static.example.com that serves images and other static content. It's once hosted whole domain (example.com),

@Shakeerah822

I've had this happen before when running a test.mysite.com subdomain, in that instance I didn't actually need to keep the sub domain so I just deleted it, and it slowly got removed from Google.

What I'd suggest is to make a Google Webmaster Tools profile for the subdomain (separate from the main domain's profile), and then once that's set up go to Google Index > Remove urls (in the side bar) and try removing the pages that you've found indexed.

Again in Webmaster Tools go to 'Crawl > Blocked urls' and see that its reading your robots.txt file correctly; this way you'll be able to see that Google knows to explicitly block your URL.

The only other option I could think of would be to somehow block access to the subdomain to everyone apart from your main site, using .htaccess (I'm not sure exactly the process for this, but someone on here should be able to point you in the right direction).

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