sahostking Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Hi, I'm seeing a lot of competitors change to my.domainname or client.domainname. and not use subfolder like we do. Is it beneficial for SEO? I thought all the KB articles would help with our ranking as we have 100s of it written. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kian Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 (edited) There are no differences. Using cool.example.com or example.com/cool is the same thing for SEO. If you really want to know what's bad on WHMCS for SEO just look at language switcher. It's the most anti-SEO thing on this system. Let's say that you are on example.com/cart.php with English language set. When you set Italian and the URL is always the same. The result of this is that the same URL provides textual contents in more than 15 different languages and this is bad. Language shouldn't be based on sessions and cookies because spiders don't know what language they have to index and since they also don't support sessions and cookies, the will index only the default language of WHMCS. Every language should have its own unique URL like en.example.com/cart.php, example.com/en/cart.php, example.com/it/cart.php, example.com/italian/cart.php etc. Anyway with some customization you can manage to create unique URLs for each language. Edited November 5, 2014 by Kian 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durangod Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 +1 Kian also remember sahostking that IMO using xxxxx.domain.com makes things a challenge when they really dont need to be. I favor folders always domain.com/xxxxxx unless you have very specific email or other needs that must have it the other way. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
othellotech Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Is it beneficial for SEO? Yes, No and Maybe but not in that order The SE's algorithms are really good at treating them the same - in my testing 4 years ago subdomain was marginally better, about 18 months ago it made no difference - YMMV The most frequently reason for a split from www. to client. or something is to keep them on separate systems for admin rather than SEO reasons 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kian Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 Agree and anyway using subdomains could indirectly give you a little boost on your SEO. For example if you put all images of your website on a dedicated subdomain like images.example.com, you have better performances even if it's all on the same server. Faster = improve your position on SE. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fugenxsaudi Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Hi, Sub-domains are good for SEO compared to sub folders. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kian Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 Hi, Sub-domains are good for SEO compared to sub folders. Not true. en.example.com and example.com/en are the same exact thing. There are plenty of articles about this on Google WMT. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaufenpreis Posted November 22, 2014 Share Posted November 22, 2014 I agree - There are no differences. But I prefer subdomains. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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