: Can I stop Google and other search engines indexing my subdomain, when subdomain is 3rd party owned? I've just looked up my website in Google, to see if the sitemap had changed to reflect
I've just looked up my website in Google, to see if the sitemap had changed to reflect some new content and pages, and I have a bit of a problem. I use a third-party hosted toolset, which is linked via a CNAME record on my host server.
So lets say...
My Site = mysite.co.uk Toolkit = clients.mysite.co.uk The CNAME on my host says: clients.mysite.co.uk > thirdparty.toolset.com
But when I look at the Google sitemap, I see several of the clients.mysite.co.uk pages listed as well - many of which I don't actually use, and so don't want the public to see.
I can't make any changes to the third party site, so can't put a robots.txt file in the root of clients.mysite.co.uk (as it's actually thirdparty.toolset.com), or make any changes to the .htaccess there either. Of course I can make changes to anything in the normal mysite.co.uk domain...
Any idea what I should do to stop the indexing happening in the subdomain, and also preferably to quickly remove what has already appeared in Google?
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Without any access to the sites, you aren't going to be able to permanently block crawling or indexing. Even Google's help help articles on this only really provides options that would require some form of access, if not to the code then to the server in some way. For example, see: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/6062602?hl=en&authuser=4&ref_topic=4598466
However, one option that might exist is to temporarily remove the URLs provided you can verify the site and gain access to Google Search Console. The REmove URLs tool gives you the opportunity to remove URLs for ~90 days. More about that here: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1663419/?hl=en&authuser=4
The one problem with that route might be verifying ownership. However, you should be able to verify via DNS: support.google.com/webmasters/answer/35179/?hl=en&authuser=4
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