Google showing up wierd subdomains for my website

[bensdbensd is verified member.]

I'm not sure why this is but after reading lots of comments on different boards i think my domain may have been penalised for some reason.

Google is saying my site has been indexed however it will still not show the main page.

Then i found this:
Google Results

It is showing up wierd subdomains for some of my pages ie -
cheerleader.boyzone.info/
amateur.boyzone.info/

Any ideas why this is or how to fix it?

-Ben

 

[ScottJ]

Those subdomains are pages so they have been setup on your hosting, if you don't want them then take the sub domains down and use Google webmaster central to remove the url's from the index.

 

[bensdbensd is verified member.]

No they haven't been set up, they are showing the same content as my main page.

I have just noticed though if i type in anything before the domain it will show up the main page.

ie. anything.boyone.info

Any ideas?

 

[ScottJ]

Sounds like a hosting issue or could it be htaccess?
If your htaccess and hosting is setup wrong then you need to give proper error pages - you must have custom 404 error which shows the homepage content - get that sorted so you can give proper 404 errors and then look to get the pages removed from Google using Webmaster Central.

 

[bensdbensd is verified member.]

I have fixed the htacess for 404 error.

When you type in boyzone.info / randomtext ir works.

But not for subdomains ie. you can still type in randomtext . boyzone.info and it will bring up the homepage content (please note - it does not redirect to the homepage but just shows the homepage)

 

[ScottJ]

I'd check with your host Bensd - I'm not sure, really your site should show nothing if there are no subdomains setup so must be a hosting issue that they can resolve for you.

 

[bensdbensd is verified member.]

Ok, i will check with them, thanks Scott.

If anyone else can shed any light i would be most grateful.

-Ben

 

[retired_member16]

* in your zonefile.

 

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

I had some subdomains set up on one of my domains by a hacker, rather than affect my site (so I didn't notice) he added subdomains - clever eh?

If its an account you control and you know what you are doing, back it up, delete it and remake your site, that way you will know what's there is yours.

 

[golddiggerguy]

Main page now indexed ( prob because a link was on my site that did it )

Worth the for £2 ?

Hope your happy now and just keep plugging

 

[devolution]

2 Possibilities:

1. Someone once linked to 'amateur.boyzone.info' somewhere else and so the crawler picked it up and indexed it due to wildcard DNS.
2. Someone owned boyzone.info before and ran something on those subdomains.

Some hosting sites run wildcard DNS by default (eg: *.domain.com will go to www.domain.com by default and can also be configured to go elsewhere).
This is useful for parking services & domains.