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Asked: 2026-06-17T20:15:00+00:00

I have hosting setup on hostgator which creates addon domains inside a subdirectory of

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I have hosting setup on hostgator which creates addon domains inside a subdirectory of the main site. So the structure is

public_html
    - main_site
        - main_site_folders
        - addon_site1
        - addon_site2

and so on. If I disallow addon_site1 and addon_site2 from robots.txt in main site will it stop search engines from indexing the addon sites? I am not able to find a direct answer to this, if somebody can point to me a document that explains this concept without ambiguity, it’ll be appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you block /main_site/addon_site, then robots would not go to www.main_site.com/addon_site. However, that wouldn’t prevent them from going to www.addon_site.com directly.

    If you want to prevent them from indexing www.addon_site.com, you’ll need to put a robots.txt file in the addon_site folder:

    User-agent: *
Disallow: /

    You need to clarify in your question what you’re trying to do.

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