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I think there isn't an inbound link, the crawler is choosing to hit http://wix.com/ http://wix.com/ if links to wix.com subdomains are common enough. It might b
by remram 4y ago
I think there isn't an inbound link, the crawler is choosing to hit http://wix.com/ http://wix.com/ if links to wix.com subdomains are common enough. It might be that there are millions of links to www.wix.com and docs.wix.com and user.api.wix.com and not a single (broken) link to wix.com, and they will crawl http://wix.com/ http://wix.com/ anyway and decide that "the site is dead". This is a problem with their methodology.
- quickthrower2 4y agoYes this goes to “what is a site?” and “who/what is controlling what sub domains”. Especially with things like GitHub.io, and indeed wix. I think ignoring dead apex domains when a subdomain worked would have been a good extra pass for the methodology.
- account42 4y agoPerhaps that is the reason for the apex domain to be dead in the first place - to communicate that the subdomains are the real roots of separate sites. Similarly, TLDs themselves are not supposed to have any A records (although there are some that do).