Hi - I have a question about IP addresses
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- would it hurt link juice to host a blog on a different server to the rest of your website?
I have a web host saying they can't run Wordpress as they won't support PHP for "security reasons" - one solution would be to set up Wordpress on a different server and redirect domain.com/blog there (I presume this is do-able?).
But I don't know if that affects the SEO adversely?
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Thank you, that gives me a lot of clarity
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Not really. As big as this site sounds, attempting to do so would probably pose a security risk to your website (as an IT professional I can think of a few ways this could work, but all involve exposing the main server in ways I would cringe at). The subdomain has the fewest questions overall.
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Thanks Egol - this website took over a year to build and cost 7 figures to build, so not so simple I'm afraid. (It's integrated with stock controls in a shop and warehouse and all sorts)
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This issue can be cleanly solved by placing this site on a different hosting service.
That's what I would do instead of rigging-up complex ways of doing something simple.
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Really not a problem - thank you for responding
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Thanks Highland - ironically that's the exact setup at the moment - a wordpress.com blog hosted on a subdomain!
So my idea was to move it to a subfolder for better SEO - then the hosts chipped in with their refusal to run PHP.
This is in a high-competition niche where every detail can make a difference.
I guess you're saying it's impossible to have a WP (.org) site hosted elsewhere and pointed at the URL domain.com/blog ?
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It depends a bit. In order to host on a different site you'll have to have a different domain or subdomain. That will let it live under a different IP. The IP thing isn't an issue but the different domain might be. I would try to get it under a subdomain of your main domain (i.e. blog.domain.com) so bots can at least see there's a relationship there. The catch here is that your subdomain is not going to pass as much juice to your main site as if it lived under domain.com/blog (where it's part of the same domain).
You don't have to host your own blog incidentally. Check out wordpress.com where, for a fee, they will map a domain to your blog. It's the safest way to host Wordpress, since they update it and secure the servers.
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sorry for the mistake.
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Ah OK, that's a much happier thing to hear! Thank you
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Damn it. I've had a typo . IT WONT AFFECT YOUR SEO.
I'm just editing the first reply. Sorry
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Thanks Gaston, much appreciated and as I feared.
I'm feeling a bit stuck as to what to do here then. I want to run Wordpress (principally for the ease of client use and the Yoast SEO plugin), but the hosts simply won't allow PHP.
So if a different server / IP number isn't a solution, I wonder if there is any way I haven't thought of to run Wordpress in an effective manner as a subfolder of the site? Or perhaps an alternative to WP that has great SEO - the hosts say they run "web servers with .Net applications hosted on them using IIS "
Does anybody have any ideas?
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Hi there.
No, it won't affect you SEO.
Hope it helps.
GR.
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