primary domain, addon domain and SEO

[onz123]

hey,

I've got a shared hosting account at bluehost, with one primary domain on it. On this domain I've done a lot of linkbuilding. Now I purchased another domain (for other niche) and and made it a so called addon domain on the same shared hosting account. Then I came to think that this would maybe do me more harm than good, from a SEO point of view. I don't really know how Google handles it with primary-, addon-, subdomain etc in shared hosting.

how do you handle it with the domains when you have more websites from different niches and only have a shared hosting account?

 

[Jabberwokky]

Sounds like you're over thinking things...

You have a lot of links on one domain, and you created a subdomain, and now you are scared.... because?

 

[omgyams]

An addon domain looks like any other domain to se spiders.

 

[onz123]

Add on domain and primary domain does not affect SEO, but sub-domain usually affect to SEO.

The problem is that bluehost automatically creates a subdomain. so you have your first domain, domain1.com and you second domain, domain2.com and bluehost automatically creates domain2.domain1.com. So I'm afraid that this might not only affect my second domain, but also my primary domain.

 

[-God-]

That's easy to rectify by recollection - I remember doing it myself many years ago with HostMonster. You need to add an htaccess file within the main public_html directory to force all domains, including the primary domain to use subfolders within the public directory. Search FAQ.

 

[onz123]

That's easy to rectify by recollection - I remember doing it myself many years ago with HostMonster. You need to add an htaccess file within the main public_html directory to force all domains, including the primary domain to use subfolders within the public directory. Search FAQ.

Thanks for the help guys. Now I've got absolutely no clue how to modify a .htaccess file. I contacted bluehost support and the only thing they gave me is a link to a site which shows you all kinds of commands to modify the htaccess file, but I don't know what command exactly I have to use to force domains to use subfolders. Is that a 301 redirect?

Also what FAQ are you referring to?

Edit: Nevermind, googled the solution (http://support.lunarpages.com/knowledge_bases/article/549)