: Google doesn't index a subdomain. What can be the problem and what can be done? I have a domain, let's call it example.com, which has a subdomain, games.example.com. I maintain a games forum

@Reiling115

Sounds like your domain is in the sandbox, if so, you just have to wait until it gets accepted to the index.

I also recommend not using your subdomain, just use a subdirectory. This way your pages will be accepted and crawled directly and all these pages will increase your PR much more than a subdomain ever will. Subdomains are no longer a good SEO practice.

See also:
Do subdomains help/hurt SEO?

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@Lengel546

Have you checked the site with a link checker? (xenu, a1 website analyzer or whatever. At least a1wa obeys nofollow, noindex and robots.txt - not 100% sure about xenu)

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@Ravi8258870

You could try adding a sitemap to games.example.com that includes some of the main pages from the forum. Also refer to it in your robots.txt, like:

Sitemap:http://games.example.com/sitemap.xml


Also, Google doesn't have a problem with your subdomain, but because it's indexing games.example.com. It's either not seeing the forum or not wanting to index it for some reason.

Also, make sure the link to the forum doesn't have a rel="nofollow" on it.

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@Nimeshi995

Google will request the robots.txt file before trying to index any page within your site. And make sure you don't have a bit like "meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"" else Google will ignore your page.

Google will index subdomains if you link to them from your main domain, but if your site is new, it will take time for Google to index everything.

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