Problem with hosting multiple sites

[MobileDealsNow]

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Hello,

I use 1&1 and host multple sites with them. The site in the 'root' is my web design website, then other sites are places in subfolders and the domains are connected to them.

Eg. www.mobiledealsnow.com is really www.empireweb.co.uk/soon/

The problem I have just noticed is that Yahoo is indexing my pages NOT as mobiledealsnow.com/index.html, but at empireweb.co.uk/soon/index.html. I already use a robot.txt file in the mobile ("soon") subfolder to stop image leechers etc....

Can I put a robot.txt in the main root of my hosting, so that empireweb.co.uk/soon is not indexed? Will this stop it indexing JUST that URL, or will it completely stop indexing mobiledealsnow.com as well?

Thanks for any advice with this, hope I have explained this well enough.

[draytop]

I host multiple sites on 1and1 as well.

I think the best option is not to have a site running from the root.

All my sites are within folders.


Peter.

[MobileDealsNow]

Thanks for the reply,

I was thinking... would it be a good idea to set-up a .htaccess in the root folder, to permanently redirect the subfolders to the real domain names? Ie. redirecting empireweb.co.uk/soon/ to www.mobiledealsnow.com etc

The search engines should index the real URL that is being redirected to, right?

[MobileDealsNow]

Well I guess I've kind of answered my own question here - d'oh!

I've taken draytop's advice and moved all sites to their own folders, leaving nothing in the root. Plus used .htaccess to permanently redirect the "/soon" URLS to the correct URL - will prob take a few weeks for the search engines to update this though.