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I have a hosting account with domain.com and we are hosting about 5 different websites. I have 5 folders in the hosting account each one with a unique folder name and of course 5 different domains assigned to each of those folders. Each site works but sadly on the main domain the folder names are visible in the Google search results, for example:

Example of folders being incorrectly indexed in Google Search Results

Question(s):

  • How can this be resolved?
  • How can this be prevented?
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  • Hi @John you should mark the correct answer or post the correct one to help the community move on
    – Raul Reyes
    Mar 7, 2016 at 22:10

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This is just another case of two or more URLs pulling up the same content. You have two ways you can handle this:

  1. Do a 301 redirect from the URLs you do not want to show in the search results to the one that you do want to show.

  2. Use canonical URLs

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.12345.com/example.html" />

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Without more info about your hosting situation i am unsure if this would work, but here is a stack that will try to force redirect-canonicalize all host/sub/domain/ip instances into http://www.addon-domain.com:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^123\.123\.123\.123 [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.123\.123\.123\.123 [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^d5151150\.host-domain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.d5151150\.host-domain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^addon-domain\.my-domain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.addon-domain\.my-domain\.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^addon-domain\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www\.addon-domain\.com/$1" [R=301,L]

If you encounter the platform install path showing once the domain is redirect-canonicalized, then this is a different issue -- you should use a rewrite for that or make the addon (and util sub) "live" in the install folder of said platform.

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