Add Ons Domains and SEO

TheDon16

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So I have an account at Bluehost and will be setting up a bunch of sites on different domains under one hosting account.

If the domains are parked at Godaddy and directed to Bluehost via the A-record where they are add-on domains to the account, does G label this as a subdomain of my primary domain? Or for SEO purposes are they each their own site?

Bluehost creates an associated subdomain, but the regular domain goes to the proper folder directly. Is there a better way to do this or is this fine?

Thanks.
 


If you switch the name servers at Godaddy for each domain to to point to your Bluehost account, they will be seen as separate domains rather than sub domains, even though they are AddOns.
 
So pointing the Arecord will cause G to view it as a subdomain? Just trying to understand the mechanics...
 
If you point the A record back to your host IP Google will look at it as a separate domain. The way I've got mine structure is this -

Main domain
Sites
domain1
domain2
domain3

I guess there was only one thing I had thought about doing it this way. When Google crawls the site, it must also drill down through ALL of my folders. I never specified an exclusion to my "sites" folder in the robots file. I don't think this has really affected anything, but it would be interesting to see other peoples thoughts on it. As long as you're not going to sub.yourdomain.com your're good.