Say you are the owner of
example.com with a wiki at
www.example.com/wiki Say
you decide to move the wiki to it's own subdomain:
wiki.example.com/wiki.
Would there necessarily be any "hit" on SEO assuming you implement
permanent redirects at the www site?
Or, in your experience, is it best to proxy [0] the subdomain from the www
site so that to users, it still appears that the content and wiki service
is located in the original path.
One example I found for a blog [1] tells a story of adverse SEO experience,
but doesn't exactly pin down the cause. The 'Moz' guide advice on this
[2] is 10 years old -- so "conventional wisdom" but I'm not sure that it
holds today.
[0]
location ^~ /wiki/ {
proxy_pass
https://wiki.example.com/wiki/;
proxy_intercept_errors on;
# serve custom 404 page from corp site instead of wiki 404
error_page 404 /errors/404.html;
# allow the wiki to pass caching headers instead of using nginX
expires off;
}
[1]
https://iwantmyname.com/blog/seo-penalties-of-moving-our-blog-to-a-subdomain
[2]
https://moz.com/blog/seo-guide-how-to-properly-move-domains
Thanks,
Greg Rundlett
https://eQuality-Tech.com
https://freephile.org