Question
Doesn't a default App domain bad for SEO?
- Posted on September 24, 2023
- DigitalOcean App Platform
Asked by ea7841b0806449598699ac0418f5a5
On App platform we can have domains from Digital Ocean and our own. Since DO-made domain is accessible for everyone, isn’t it bad for SEO? Google might think that website on our own domain is duplicated. I’m not an expert, and will be grateful for the answer.
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I would say this is not bad for SEO, but as you know there are a few steps you need to take in order to ensure that your domain name will appear correctly in the search engines.
You can submit a sitemap for the domain to Google Search Console and configure your robots.txt file accordingly.
A question on SEO topic was posted in our community which you can check here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/what-is-the-importance-of-seo-in-digital-marketing
Hope that this helps!