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I have launched a subdomain website for admin purposes. Simply for staff and clients to login and view private pages. I've ticked to discourage search engines to index it as I don't want it to be found.

However, I am concerned that discouraging search engines on the subdomain may impact the way they crawl the main public domain. Therefore, should I set it up on a completely different domain or is it fine to leave things as they are?

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  • What makes you think that a subdomain being private will affect the primary domain?
    – Steve
    Aug 12, 2021 at 21:59
  • I just want to make sure that it won't impact it negatively? Basically just worried in case it does.
    – Moji
    Aug 13, 2021 at 10:03
  • When you say "ticked to discourage search engines" does that mean that it is powered by WordPress? The "Discourage Search Engine" option in WordPress creates a robots.txt file that disallows all crawling. Or are you using some other platform or using some other mechanism like password protecting the whole thing?
    – Stephen Ostermiller ♦
    Aug 13, 2021 at 10:06
  • Yes its a basic wordpress website on the subdomain and I have ticked to discourage search engines. The pages on it are all password protected - just with the basic password option for viewing wordpress pages.
    – Moji
    Aug 13, 2021 at 10:16

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Google treats subdomains as separate domains. Your admin subdomain will not affect the organic visibility of your main site.

Unless the content is sensitive/confidential, don't worry!

If it is confidential, I would recommend something like Cloudflare - when we “discourage” (disallow in robots.txt, no follow) Google respects this.

Other bots, especially malicious ones, have no obligation to honor this request. They will not respect it.

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