We are moving away from our wordpress website to a cloud hosted e-commerce platform, which will use our bare domain due to our high SEO ranking. I want to move our posts to discourse, but run it under the same domain is that possible? To be clear, http://ultraluz.com.br/ will be running in a external server I can’t control or access so I believe I can’t use nginx tricks or something. I only have access to the server that will be running discourse. My goal is to move posts like this http://ultraluz.com.br/iluminacao-para-esportes-como-deixar-as-instalacoes-esportivas-dignas-de-um-atleta-profissional/ to discourse but keep same path or at best domain/blog/same-url while my bare domain is pointed and hosted in a Wix-like platform.

It might be possible to have cloudflare in front of both sites with a rule to route traffic to discourse for the subfolder. I am not aware of anyone doing that. You’ll probably need to hire someone or figure out out on your own. Just follow the topic here about subfolder installs and whatever cloudflare has about the same. I thought that the belief that a subfolder was better for seo had gone away. My recommendation would be to just use a subdomain, but if you have a budget contact me or post in #marketplace.

You could technically achieve the subfolder part at Cloudflare using an Enterprise page rule or maybe via workers but I’m pretty skeptical that we could provide any assistance with either. Cloudflare is hard to support in any form beyond DNS. And yes, Google themselves have debunked the whole SEO snake oil around cramming everything under a single domain.

Better safe than sorry with SEO. I don’t see how a blog.domain would boost my domain seo, so there is no point in having a blog domain at all. SEO Best Practices with Cloudflare Workers, Part 2: Implementing Subdomains Subdomains and subdirectories are different strategies for instrumenting root domains with new features, but which strategy is technically better? I’ve been thinking in following this guide. Which assetsPathnames: ["/public/", "/assets/"] I should use?

That’s what you believe. But there is no evidence that a subdomain helps boost the bare domain at all. And even cloudflare recommends running everything in the same domain.

Then why, pray tell, is their discourse community on a subdomain?

Because anything with cloudflare in the domain will rank well. And their forum is enormous

If that’s what you believe, move along. There is nothing for you here. Go elsewhere, go somewhere that people believe the same things you do.

[image] Subdirectories vs. Subdomains for 2019 and Beyond What's best for rankings, a subdomain or a subdirectory? SEOs and Google can't agree, but there's a strong case for one of them. Est. reading time: 13 minutes [image] Subdomains vs. Subfolders: Which Is Better for SEO & Why? The use of a subdomain or a subfolder has SEO, user experience, and other implications. Learn about the pros, cons, and use cases of each one. Est. reading time: 7 minutes I could link much more links, with data behind them if I wasn’t limited to 2 links. And except for Cloudflare, which is massive and don’t need to focus on SEO all websites on the first page for this search use subdirectories It won’t be hard to find other places where people believe the same thing since this seems to be consensus on the SEO community. But sure, if you have ANY evidence that a subdomain helps rank the root domain please enlighten the internet :slight_smile:

Direct from Matt Cutts. Your SEO “experts” are selling you snake oil. [image] Blog on subfolder in discourse Self-hosting Here is a response from Matt Cutts in email to me: pretty much everyone who has strong opinions on subdomains vs. subfolders doesn’t know what they’re talking about. They sure do have strong opinions anyway though! Sorry, I believe Matt Cutts of Google over your random link wink Through the years some of the worst, least competent people I’ve ever seen on a team are the “SEO experts”. They are uniformly a disgrace and an embarrassment to the industry.

How to run discourse on subdirectory of external domain?

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Stephen (Stephen) December 1, 2019, 8:45pm 5

Subfolder installs are much more complicated and very fragile.

The point is that there’s zero benefit running under the same FQDN and significantly more risk and cost.

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