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I've started a new site, but I've had the domain for a while, I have my blog on a subdomain. and the blog can also be hit by ... because I had the blog before the site, I submitted the blog subdomain to google and yahoo. I have had pretty good content and it should help my sites ranking. Only question is, I will submit the site now, should I stop submitting the subdomain or should I submit both.... I don't want to get black listed for submitting the content twice as and again

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Short answer: pick one canonical URL and consolidate everything there. Leaving both live and submitting both sitemaps won’t get you “blacklisted,” but it will split signals and slow down the consolidation of ranking signals. The clearest path is to choose the site you intend to keep long‑term (subdomain or /blog), implement a permanent (301) redirect from the alternate URL to that canonical host, use consistent rel="canonical" tags, and list only the canonical URLs in your sitemap(s). See Google’s guidance on canonicalization and sitemaps. (developers.google.com)

Practical steps you can apply now (matches and ’s advice, and addresses ’s robots point):

  1. Choose the canonical (example: either blog.example.com or example.com/blog).
  2. Put 301 redirects in place from the non‑canonical URL to the canonical one. Example snippets:

Apache (.htaccess)

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?example\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^blog/(.*)$ https://blog.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Nginx

server {
    server_name example.com www.example.com;
    location /blog/ { return 301 https://blog.example.com$request_uri; }
}
  1. Publish a sitemap that lists only the canonical URLs and submit it in Search Console (or add a domain property to cover subdomains). 301s + rel="canonical" are the strongest signals; sitemaps help discovery. (developers.google.com)

Checklist / cautions (ties to and ): update all internal links to the chosen format; ensure the canonical pages are NOT blocked by robots.txt (robots are host‑root specific—each subdomain needs its own robots.txt if you host the blog on a subdomain); verify the canonical host in Search Console and monitor Coverage/URL Inspection to confirm Google is picking the preferred URL. If you cannot 301 immediately, use rel="canonical" as a fallback, but prefer redirects when deprecating duplicates. (developers.google.com)

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Member Avatar for OlyComputers

I don't think there's any reason to submit both, I'd suggest keeping both live and trying to transition to just using the one. It will make links less complicated for other people, and increase the page ranking because the hits and links to the page will all go to the same place.

If you just submit (or ) than people searching will still find all the content, but because all the traffic through google will be pointed to that ONE page (not split between two) you'll get a better ranking for it.

Member Avatar for x3mario

I think there's no issue about that. It's good if you submit both your sites.

Member Avatar for Dani

You shouldn't need to submit your site to the search engines at all. They should be able to pick up on it from external links pointing to you.

<edit> Nevermind, saw you were talking about a sitemap. Subdomains are seen as completely different sites, so links between different subdomains pass link juice differently than links between different pages of the same domain or subdomain.

Member Avatar for OlyComputers

If I'm interpreting this right, it's exactly the same site at two different URLs, wouldn't trying to push both of them just split up your hits and lower the page ranks?

Member Avatar for ArvindSharma

hi,

You should keep only one format of blog
I would perfer subdomian format ie rather then (sub directory format)

There are several reason behind my suggestion which are as follows:

1. Blogs usually have several section which you dnt want to crawl like comment section, trackback section, admin section etc depending on which kind of technology you are using for maintaining your blog (say word press etc).
You can maintain it with the help of robots.txt. you can write differnt robots for a subdomain but this is not available in the subdirectory format.

2. google usually perfer subdomain format on the sub directory format.

I will suggest you to only keep subdomain format and redirect the sub directory page to subdomain Pages. because in this way you will not loose your traffic or credit which are coming through the subdirectory pages.

hope you will be able to find your answer.

Member Avatar for bobchrist

I agree with the suggestion to redirect sub directory page to subdomain Pages.

Member Avatar for bizzduniya

hey i have a website and a subdomain
I want to make xml site map for my subdomain. I have tried all online sitemap generators but not getting the the URLs in the site map for my subdmain..Kindly help

Member Avatar for james.cody.148

I also agree with the suggestion to redirect sub directory page to subdomain Pages. But i thought subdomain help you for better google rank. Free Classified In India

Member Avatar for era27

i think now you should leave that blog and should focus on site and try to make the site more popular.

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