Install Wordpress on different folders on the same URL
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Howdy Mozers!
It's a long story, but I have Wordpress installed on my root domain "example.com" and in "example.com/folder" as well.
Will this affect my SEO? Should I delete WP from my folder, and build my pages from a folder on the root domain, like "example.com/folder1"?
Hope I've managed to properly explain myself
Thanks!
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happy to be of help and remember if you ever have an issue with your permana links breaking before you going crazy simply go into them and hit the save button this refreshes them and works miracles I promise you.
All the best,
Tom
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Great to know guys, thanks a lot!
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there is absolutely nothing to worry about running WordPress this subfolder it is actually a great idea.
If you find yourself having to make 301 redirects for any reason because you've change the subfolder I strongly recommend using this tool and check out the links below.
https://yoast.com/wp-content/permalink-helper.php
https://yoast.com/change-wordpress-permalink-structure/
https://yoast.com/wordpress-seo-url-permalink/
one thing you want to make sure you're doing correctly is redirecting if you're changing anything. Example
RedirectMatch 301 ^/http://www.example.com/wp-example-folder/(\d+)$ http://www.example.com/http://www.example.com/wp-example-folder/?p=$1 hope this helps, Tom
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Hi Fernando,
It should not have any issues from SEO point of view.
We are using the same technique at a client's website (to distinguish easily a hungarian and a romanian version which are not the same at all - so a multilanguage implementation wouldn't have been benefitial), and both version are working fine.
So I would not worry too much about it.
Gr., Keszi
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Hi Fernando, though you have WordPress files inside "example.com/folder", you can set your domain to be "example.com". I think it doesn't matter where you installed WordPress as long as your address is "example.com". And of course, you must be doing your SEO on "example.com".
I think it is more of a WordPress installation issue than an SEO one. You can read more about it here - http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory. I hope this helps.
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