The Other Search Engines

**jim.thornton** · 04-19-2006, 12:21 AM

I was wondering if adding a subdomain to my current site would cause the SE's to index it?? Can I stop it?

OR, would there be a disadvantage in adding a separate domain name as a second domain under the same hosting package. My hosting package will allow me to have up to 5 domains.

**chrishirst** · 04-19-2006, 06:59 PM

are you asking about subdomains or aliased domains?

and is your question;
would adding a sub-domain get the main domain indexed ?

**jim.thornton** · 04-20-2006, 12:14 AM

Sorry for the confusion... May this will help.

1)If I add a subdomain to an existing website (whichi is indexed), will the Search Engines index the sub-domain? I ask because it seems as though a sub-domain is just a directory of your current site but the newsubdomain points to that directory

For example,

www.mysite.com - let's say this is current and indexed

now you add newsub.mysite.com - It seems as though it points to a directory out of the root (called /newsub).

So, my question is will newsub.mysite.com get indexed. I don't want it to this is why I am asking. I want the subdomain to be for internal company use only for security reasons.

2)My hosting package allows for 5 add-on domains (Cpanel). If I register a second domain name www.newsite.com and set it up as an add-on domain. Will the search engines index it if the current site is already indexed (as above). I ask this because again, it seems as though if you add-on a domain then again you are creating a directory in the root of the main site.

I don't want either way to get picked up by search engines.

Hope that makes it clearer.

**chrishirst** · 04-20-2006, 04:58 AM

1) No SE will not find the sub-domain without there being a link to it.

2) same as above However some registrars have linked lists where newly registered hostnames get added.

SE do not know the structure of your site, if you have a subfolder that is not actually linked to, the crawlers won't even "know" it exists.

**jim.thornton** · 04-20-2006, 12:26 PM

Great... Thank you.

So, for security reasons it almost sounds like a subdomain is better than a new domain.

Thank you for your input... It was very helpful.