{"id":28528,"date":"2026-09-08T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/subdomain-indexing\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:34:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T23:34:34","slug":"subdomain-indexing","status":"publish","type":"ar_ykb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/subdomain-indexing\/","title":{"rendered":"Subdomain indexing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yandex treats every subdomain as a separate site.<\/strong> That single fact governs everything else: each one is added to the console separately, verified separately, assigned a region separately, and crawled separately.<\/p>\n<h2>The two legitimate uses<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Regional subdomains<\/strong> \u2014 put the region in the address (<code>spb.example.com<\/code>) and assign the matching region. Assignment is moderated, and <strong>contact information is one of the verification criteria<\/strong>. Yandex says outright: do not use a regional subdomain where the company has no physical office in that region. A subdomain claiming a city it cannot document will fail moderation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Language subdomains<\/strong> \u2014 use the standard language code (<code>en.example.com<\/code>), add alternate links between versions, and assign a region such as the United States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What has to be done per subdomain<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>Follow the general site recommendations \u2014 it is a site.<\/li>\n<li>Add it to the console and verify it. The verification code from the primary address works, <em>provided you verified that address yourself rather than being granted rights on it<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Set its region, so it is eligible for location-dependent queries.<\/li>\n<li>Set its crawl rate if needed, since that setting is per site too.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>The costs people underestimate<\/h2>\n<p>Each subdomain consumes crawl capacity of its own \u2014 Yandex names this as a cause of server load spikes and suggests reconsidering whether subdomains are needed at all when logs show most requests going to them. Authority does not pool: five regional subdomains are five sites building their standing separately, not one site with five sections.<\/p>\n<h2>Blocking and removal<\/h2>\n<p>Both work exactly as for an ordinary site \u2014 <code>robots.txt<\/code> and <code>noindex<\/code> for blocking, the removal tool with the same prerequisites for removal. Note that a subdomain appearing in search unexpectedly is one of the standard diagnostics recommendations, and staging environments are the usual culprit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yandex treats every subdomain as a separate site. That single fact governs everything else: each one is added to the console separately, verified separately, assigned a region separately, and crawled separately. The two legitimate uses Regional subdomains \u2014 put the region in the address (spb.example.com) and assign the matching region. Assignment is moderated, and contact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":104,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_ykb_kategori":[764],"ar_ykb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-28528","ar_ykb","type-ar_ykb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_ykb_kategori-site-indexing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_ykb"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29149,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28528\/revisions\/29149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_kategori?post=28528"},{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_etiket?post=28528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}