Does it matter if your key site is not your primary domain on your webhosting account?

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  • cordoba
    Confirmed User
    • Feb 2010
    • 1363
    #1

    Tech Does it matter if your key site is not your primary domain on your webhosting account?

    My main site is not the primary domain on my webhost plan (on which I have a dozen sites hosted). So it's a subfolder on the document root - /public_html/xxxx.com rather than /public_html

    Does this matter at all as far as Google is concerned, or for any other reason?
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    • redwhiteandblue
      Bollocks
      • Jun 2007
      • 2793
      #2
      Shouldn't be visible from the client side so doesn't matter.
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        • Klen
          • Aug 2006
          • 32235
          #3
          Google or anyone else cant see in what system folder you have site/files stored.

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            • cordoba
              Confirmed User
              • Feb 2010
              • 1363
              #4
              Thanks, I thought that was probably the case. :thumbs-up

              I've read a couple of people here though say things like having a Wordpress SEO plugin like YOAST is a bad idea, because Google can see you have it (they appear to mean that Google can see inside your Wordpress folders, rather than detecting it from tell-tale signs of overoptimization and such).

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                • tj2050
                  Registered User
                  • Feb 2023
                  • 6
                  #5
                  Originally posted by cordoba
                  Thanks, I thought that was probably the case. :thumbs-up

                  I've read a couple of people here though say things like having a Wordpress SEO plugin like YOAST is a bad idea, because Google can see you have it (they appear to mean that Google can see inside your Wordpress folders, rather than detecting it from tell-tale signs of overoptimization and such).
                  Yoast, Rankmath, and the other "SEO" enhancers are totally 100% fine as far as google is concerned. They actually prefer it.

                  These plugins make the site more understandable to the search engines and help you optimize your content so it's more searchable.

                  Wordpress ain't bad without it. But Google has a lot of features that Wordpress can't natively take advantage of.

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                    • redwhiteandblue
                      Bollocks
                      • Jun 2007
                      • 2793
                      #6
                      Originally posted by cordoba
                      Thanks, I thought that was probably the case. :thumbs-up

                      I've read a couple of people here though say things like having a Wordpress SEO plugin like YOAST is a bad idea, because Google can see you have it (they appear to mean that Google can see inside your Wordpress folders, rather than detecting it from tell-tale signs of overoptimization and such).
                      That is correct, Google and anyone else can see that you have Yoast installed but that's because it adds a comment line into your HTML near the top of the page. All you have to do to see it is right click and view source code. Lots of WP plugins do this.
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                        • NatalieK
                          Natalie K
                          • Apr 2010
                          • 20117
                          #7
                          TBH, I think you´ve done it right.

                          When we run a dedicated server for our collection of sites, our primary was public_html

                          so when you opened the server, you have all your other sites listed in alpha order and the members area, images and galleries, all the other content sub folders all listed amongst the first directory...

                          would have been better as public_html/primary

                          so now, these sub folders only could be seen when opening that site.

                          With the primary as the main folder, it was a cluster fuck, a mine field to first look at
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