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 I don't know if this is relevant to admintools but here goes.
I developed a new site by setting up a new joomla system under an existing one www.xyz.com/newsite this way I could get agreement from the client to invest in a new url and hosting when he was happy with the project. So now I have set everything up with a new url www.newsite.com and everything works OK. My problem is that Google discovered the development site and insists on putting that at the top of search results even though I have removed the /newsite folder from the original website (it now gives a 404 error). I have been on to the Google webdashboard site and registered the new sitesbut after about 3 weeks Google insists on listing my non existent development site at the top of the search results. I tried putting a disallow xyz.com/newsite in Robots.txt but that hasn't changed anything.
I was wondering whether admintools is stopping Google from discovering that the /newsite folder no longer exists. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Under normal circumstances, no, Admin Tools would not block Google. But if you used GeoIP blocks to block the US, for example, that would block Google. So it could be done, in several ways, but it doesn't by default.

If you can't beat them, join them. Set the development directory back up and put an .htaccess file in it to do a 301 redirect to the new site.

I decided to have a go with your "can't beat them join them " strategy.

I haven't done this before but I recreated an empty folder www.xyz.com/newsite and put a file called .htaccess in it containing the line

Redirect 301 /newsite http://www.newsite.com/

Do I need anything else in the folder as it just comes up with a 404 article not found when I call www.xyz.com/newsite ?

Thanks

correction it is actually redirecting to www.newsite.com/newsite which of course doesn't exist what am I doing wrong?

The subdomain has to exist the way it did before.

I had to do this earlier this week with one of my sites. Here's what my Google search turned up:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^subdomain.xyz.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*) http://zyz.com/$1 [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

That is working for me.

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