How to stop search engines from indexing the default Portal domain?

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Posted on by FilipB

Hello,

We implemented a custom domain on the portal for our client. Now, the portal can be accessed via two domains:

The default PA Portals domain, e.g. domain.powerappsportals.com
The custom domain provided by our client, e.g. www.domain.com

This is a bit problematic for our client because they do not want the default domain (.powerappsportals.com) to be visible with search engines. They are also using Google Tag Manager for site analytics and now they are getting duplicated analytics (from the custom and the default domain) which messes up their data.

Is it possible to somehow "block" the default domain from being searchable? Is it maybe possible to use 'no index' directives when the pages are returned from the default domain? And to remove gtag scripts from the DOM? Is this even a viable solution?

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OOlashyn 3,496 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @FilipB ,

This is an interesting requirement. I don't think this will be achievable with noindex meta tags as you are specifying it on the page level and pages that served by custom domain and by default are basically the same pages. Same for gtag script. You might try to use request liquid object to get the URL of the opened page or page tag but I don't think that this approach will work either. Maybe others will be able to propose other approaches.

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FilipB 23 on at

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Thanks for the reply!
This solution also crossed my mind but it sounds a bit sketchy. As you've said, the problem is that the content is actually being served from the default domain (and the custom one is just a redirect).

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