Is it a good idea to direct a new url to a subfolder?
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Hello everyone,
I have a client who is in public relations. He is wanting to integrate SEO into his business and is hiring me to help.
He purchased a domain that is separate from his existing website, but wants to keep the services and existing blog (which will include SEO) on his current site.
For example, he has:
and wants to add a SEO folder which will contain our services: www.example.com/prseo
the domain he purchased (as another example) is: www.prseo.com but wants to direct it to the folder he has set up @ example.com/prseo
Can anyone offer advise? Is this a good idea?
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The reason I ask about the seo folder is because "seo" isn't usually something that's separate from any of the rest of your site--folders, or otherwise. Rather, it's something that is integrated into the site's words, pages and programming so as to not even identifiable as seo--just proper best practices.
When a site's services pages are optimized, for example, they end up being just plain ol' services pages--it's just that keywords have been properly researched and utilized, internal link anchor text has been researched and properly implemented, page titles and metadata have been thought out, etc. The same goes for the homepage and all the site's other pages.
You may already know all this and I'm being overly simplistic for you here. If so, my apologies, but I wasn't quite sure from your question what you were looking for.
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Okay, great. Thanks for that!
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Hi Visabel,
And why doesn't the client want everything on one site? Just because of the "seo" folder? Can you be more detailed about what the differences will be between the content on the two domains/websites?
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The only issue you will run into having multiple domains inside sub folders rather than having each one in it's own folder is in one instance. Say you suddenly decide to make www.example.com have a new article post or make a page prseo then since you have the folder occupied by another domain it will complicate things. But other than that you could install 50 domains in 1 folder if you really wanted to.
Not going to effect your SEO either.
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