WordPress Multisite

  • I have been running WordPress MU, in fact I have now have two baby hosting plans with Hostgator.

    I usually build the site – subdomain. I work on content, themes and plugins and when I’m ready I buy the domain name and map it using WordPress MU Domain Mapping plugin by Donncha.

    Is this wrong? I heard Google indexes my site based on the subdomain not the mapped domain?

    I don’t want to develop habits if they are not the right way to building my wordpress sites. Does this methodology affect SEO and rankings?

    If so what are my options beside building a site with the proper domain name initially. The current method i’m using now is cost efficient and easy to test sites.

    Thanks for any input for you experts out there.

    Mahalo!

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  • Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

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    Is this wrong? I heard Google indexes my site based on the subdomain not the mapped domain?

    Google maps by the perceived front end. If you map a domain, it will index that and NOT your subdomain.

    You can set your subdomain installs to turn search engines off, which will block Most search engines (Google, but not some of the stupid ones). It’s a perfectly fine way to go about it. Just turn search indexing back on when you’re ready to go live.

    The domain mapping plugin you mentioned actually has a setting in it to make sure google indexes the mapped domain.

    Thread Starter fjumayao

    (@fjumayao)

    @ipstenu, thank you very much for that simple clarification.
    @andrea_r Is it the permanent redirect option? What about the disable primary domain check?

    Hope someday I can pay it forward to other new users. Thank you both for being so unselfish with your knowledge!

    As we say in Hawaii – Much Mahalo!

    “Permanent redirect” uses a 301 redirect rather than 302 to send visitors to your domain mapped site.
    “Redirect administration pages to network’s original domain (remote login disabled if this redirect is disabled)” – with this checked, if a user visits their dashboard on a mapped domain it will redirect to the dashboard on the non mapped domain. If you don’t want this, remote login will be disabled for security reasons.
    “Disable primary domain check. Sites will not redirect to one domain name. May cause duplicate content issues.” – ignore the primary domain setting on your sites. The same content will be available on multiple domains and may cause problems with Google because of duplicate content issues.

    check the permanant redirect option.

    do not check the disable primary domain.

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