On Monday 12 Jan 2015 16:54:34 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > > Should the parent company URL that is the root content served by the
> > > webserver have access to the child-company subdirectories? Or are
> > > they just an artifact. Google's not too keen on identical content
> > > being repeated so you might want to remove it from the parent.
> >
> > There's no repeated content, but there will be a link to our content
> > from the parent company site.
>
> OK, but watch out for child1.co.uk's content, served from
> /server/parent/child1, being accessible at parent.com/child1. Even if
> you don't link to it there, if parent-webserver serves it up if
> explicitly asked then these unwanted URLs have a habit of leaking out
> and being crawled. Having /server/parent and /server/child1 avoids this
> possibility as parent can't serve something above its root, i.e.
> ../child1.
Got it. We may already have used that because it was the only way we could
get there.
I'll talk to Paul tomorrow.
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