Soldato
- Joined
- 25 Sep 2003
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I'm having a bit of a mare with the way I'm hosting some websites and I'm not pro enough to know if the way I'm hosting them is affecting the ranking of our main website.
Here's the problem:
Website 1 is hosted on some webspace and was ranking very well then we decided to expand some of our services and built two new websites. Because the main website was already there and doing fine we put the other two websites in their own sub folders.
So now we have:
website 1
--- website 2
--- website 3
Suddenly our main website has dropped a considerable amount in the Google listings and I was wondering if it's because of the new websites being under the main one. I've just put in the robots.txt file to disallow going in to these two new websites but is that enough?
Was adding them to robots.txt a good idea and would this now effectively lock Google in to website 1 when it comes through Website 1's domain name.
Then when Google comes through Websites 2 domain name and again Websites 3's domain name it won't be able to jump up the heirachy to Website 1, right? Right?
TIA
Here's the problem:
Website 1 is hosted on some webspace and was ranking very well then we decided to expand some of our services and built two new websites. Because the main website was already there and doing fine we put the other two websites in their own sub folders.
So now we have:
website 1
--- website 2
--- website 3
Suddenly our main website has dropped a considerable amount in the Google listings and I was wondering if it's because of the new websites being under the main one. I've just put in the robots.txt file to disallow going in to these two new websites but is that enough?
Was adding them to robots.txt a good idea and would this now effectively lock Google in to website 1 when it comes through Website 1's domain name.
Then when Google comes through Websites 2 domain name and again Websites 3's domain name it won't be able to jump up the heirachy to Website 1, right? Right?
TIA