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How to Edit Your Domains

Find it in the Admin Center: Search.gov Home > Admin Center > YourSite > Manage Content > Domains

How to include content

Fill out the applicable domains, subdomains, or folders to return results specific to your website. You do not need to include https:// as we recognize domains with or without it.

Including entire sites

  • List yoursite.gov (without www) to search your entire site, including all subdomains.
  • List yoursite.gov and yoursite2.gov to search multiple sites.

Including specific subdomains

  • List www.yoursite.gov to include only content under the ‘www’ domain.
  • List subdomain.yoursite.gov to include subdomains.

Including specific directories

List yoursite.gov/folder to include folders. This will include all subfolders, including yoursite.gov/folder/subfolder1 and yoursite.gov/folder/subfolder2.

How to exclude content

Excluding domains or folders

You can exclude specific subdomains or folders by:

  • Listing the excluded subdomains or folders in your robots.txt file. This blocks them from all crawlers that follow the robots exclusion protocol.
  • Excluding them by omission. For example, to exclude subdomain3, list only subdomain1.yoursite.gov, subdomain2.yoursite.gov, and subdomain4.yoursite.gov.

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You can remove or filter specific URLs by:

  • Removing the page from your site and returning a 404 (Not Found), 401 (Gone), or 301 (Permanently Moved) HTTP status.
  • Adding a noindex robots metatag or x-robots tag. This blocks them from all crawlers that follow the robots exclusion protocol.