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1/12/2007 2:17 PM
 
David Snow


www.AgingSafely.com
Joined: 9/18/2006
Posts: 226

I am setting up a multi-port DNN system with several parent portals. It just dawned on me that there is no root directory for each sub-domain. After trying out a few things DNN operated as I expected the root of the sub-domain appears to the same as the main domain. This means that they all share the same robots.txt, sitemap.xml and urllist.txt!

Has anybody actually figured out how to set this up correctly? Can these files have URLS from multiple domain/sub-domains? Do Google and Yahoo do the right thing here? Am I actually better off without these files? Since it takes weeks to months to see how Google and friends treat these files I am hopping that someone else has been down this path.

Are there other files I need to lookout for like Google's file for verifying that you are the administrator of the site?

/Dave

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1/12/2007 5:14 PM
 
Swanzey Internet Group LLC


www.swanzey.com
Joined: 9/10/2003
Posts: 454

Dave - a common root can be both a blessing and a curse.

Check out DoneIn.net's google sitemap module. At least, it's the one I use and like. The common root makes it easy to verify each hosted DNN site because of 1 common verification file at the root, and the module mentioned will deliver sitemaps for each hosted DNN site automatically.

For robots.txt, take a look at the one in use here on DNN. A nice thing I learned last week and now use is that Google accepts wildcards in robots.txt, so you can place a wildcard disallow in robots.txt to stop the robot from indexing such things like terms, privacy, register, etc. on EVERY page of the site.

Eric Swanzey
www.swanzey.com
 
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6/12/2007 10:54 AM
 
Gabriel Cersonsky

Joined: 5/10/2006
Posts: 144

I looked at the one on the DNN site, however I did not see any with wildcards. I am curious to see how someone with multiple portals wrote their robot.txt file. I am new to SEO

Thanks

Gabe
 
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