Google treats pages from main website and sub folder/sub directory differently?
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Hi all,
We have a sub directory like website.com/help/. This is a differently hosted and served content. So I wonder how Google treats pages from this sub directory. Will the same priority will be given for these pages compared to main website pages? Will there be any ranking difference when same page is from main website or sub directory. I mean like below page.
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Page from main website: www.website.com/page1/
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Page from sub-directory: www.website.com/help/page1/
So which page will have more importance in search results?
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Well I do not think there should be much difference as you are talking abut directories in the same website as compared to a Sub-domain like here:
cars.website.com
flowers.website.com
store.website.comWhen things are in a different directory buy are technically on the same domain they still share in the Domain Authority of the site. The different sub-domain sites could all have different Domain Authority scores from how Google looks at them as far as I know.
Best Regards
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