Stop google indexing subdomain

Question

I have subdomain "klient" for testing websites for our clients and I don't want that to be indexed. I have set in robots.txt (in root of our web) this:

User-agent: *
disallow: /subdom/klient/*

But I'm not sure, if it does really work, because I have now found testing site in google results...

Where could be problem or how could we stop google and other bots indexing this folder...?

Thank you

Loreanloredana

Is it a subdomain or a subdirectory? – Trantham

It is subdirectory, based in ./subdom/klient/ and with .htaccess, it is accessible like subdomain (klient.url.com) – Loreanloredana

From Google's perspective it is a subdomain, not a subdirectory. – Trantham

@JohnKugelman yeah you are right... So what is right solution to go? – Loreanloredana

Possible duplicate of How robots.txt file should be properly written for subdomains? – Tillich

Answer 1

You can do that by placing a robots.txt in the root directory of your subdomain.

So in your klient.example.com, place a robots.txt with the following content:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

If you want to remove already indexed pages, create a new webconsole site with your subdomain and remove the indexed pages there.

Hydrotaxis

And will this affect all folders in this subdomain? Because the structure is for every client like this: klient.3angle.cz/ourClient/ – Loreanloredana

yes, this will affect all folders in subdomain. so: klient.3angle.cz/ourClient/ klient.3angle.cz/ourClient2/ klient.3angle.cz/newClient/ And every other folder and subfolder in klient.3angle.cz will get affected. – Hydrotaxis