When you point your child domains to the parent domain, does Google still crawl the child sites, index them, and rank them as if they were not pointed to the parent?
WP Hive » Installation and Configuration
Pointing and Google Ranking
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Posted 2 years ago #
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How are you pointing the child domain to the parent? Is it a redirect, or are you serving the same site, just under a different name?
If you are serving the same site under a different name, then Google will see duplicate content, which it heavily frowns upon. If you are doing a 301 redirect, then Google will only see the 'real' site, not the redirected one. And, if both sites are different (eg. sub.domain.com and domain.com), then Google sees them (although, this point can be debated a little) as two separate sites.
Posted 2 years ago # -
I am talking about the blogs (each with unique content) that will point to the hive site, as per your installation instruction:
Use your Webserver Administration (Cpanel, IIS, etc..) to point any domains you want to use in the hive to the Wordpress directory.
How do we do this and still keep ranking?
Posted 2 years ago # -
External parties (eg: Google) have no idea that they point to the same location on the server. They are being accessed publicly as domain.com, otherdomain.com, sub.domain.com etc.. which are separate sites.
Posted 2 years ago # -
Perfect! I will give Hive a try. Is it because the blogs share the same IP address?
Posted 2 years ago # -
They are on the same server, so usually they would share the same IP address, yes. However, I did recently set up some sites on an IIS server that were on different IP addresses. It's not usually required, nor a very common configuration, but it possible to do if you have the right resources.
There is some debate as to whether Google includes the site's IP address in their ranking, so I really don't know if that has any bearing. If it does, it is quite marginal.
Posted 2 years ago # -
@ikailo, with regard to your last comment, were those sites you set up under different IP addresses all under one Hive? If so, where can I find instructions for doing so?
PS. I'm on a Linux server with Firehost.com using Plesk.
Posted 1 year ago # -
I don't really have any instructions per-say. It's a matter of advising the webserver to send all requests for any of the IP Addresses to the same directory.
In Apache, you can do this using VHOSTS. In IIS, it's done in the main properties panel for the site.
Posted 1 year ago #
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