Perfect! Thanks for the follow-up. I set up the majority of my sites the way you mentioned with no issues at all installing Wordpress, etc.

Now that I know you have done exactly what I was wondering about, I am much more confident about hosting this way.

Appreciate the thoroughness!

Cheers,

~JC

The important thing to note is that your individual sites get indexed and treated as if they were hosted alone.

The difference between shared hosting with GoDaddy and other hosts for the most part.. is GoDaddy keeps the extra sites off the root while the others keep them on the same level as the root. The advantage with GoDaddy, besides price, is that you can keep them better organized (in my opinion).

Just to let you know as well… In the past, I sold the site that was attached to my hosting account (the root domain). I was able to change out the root domain with another one first, then sell it like any other. So… even the root domain can be pulled with a cpl extra steps.

Hope that helps..

As I conquered the quest of setting up an account and running my first wordpress site, I realized it was kinda simple considering I know knowing about hosting a site. Although, I couldn’t have done it without blogs and tutorials of great people who take the time to share their knowledge. Thanks for another great read as I felt clueless as to how to setup a second website on my Godaddy account. blessings…

-one hope

Awesome post, man. This has answered every question I have…except one. And forgive me if it’s a simple thing, but while I am experienced with site management/design…SEO/Indexing is not a strong point.

My question is, lets say I have set all 40 of my sites using WP, and the way you have suggested, and somewhere along the line, one of the sites is pulling a lot of traffic, doing very well, and someone wants to buy it from me.

I understand how I can sell them the contents of the site, that is simple.

But if I did that, since Google is indexing from my first (primary)domain, and not as an actual “individual” site, would the person buying it be at a huge disadvantage when they took over the site, hosting it in a different location? And have problems with permalinks, etc? Or am I completely off-base in how that system works?

This is probably easy, but I definitely don’t want to set anything up wrong and then 6 months down the road realize I really screwed up.

Thanks in advance for any info…from what I’ve read so far your site has AWESOME content. Kudos!

Cheers,

~JC

Adding the code to the robots file of the root site which contains the “_sites” folder will not affect the actual URL from being indexed. Here’s the code:

Disallow: /_sites

… keep in mind it’s case sensitive

hope that helps!

do you know what i would put in the robots.txt file? i want to be very careful that i don’t block the direct url from being indexed. i’m guessing the robots.txt would need to occur at the base domain level blocking the _sites directory, as opposed to at the site level. i also went into webmaster tools for the base domain and requested removal of the _sites directory hopefully that will work also.

i did everything i could to avoid linking but discovered that when changing a wordpress url the links to attachments such as images is not updated, and therefore google was able to index the site through this alternative path (for anyone else reading this with the same problem i quickly found a plugin which will allow you to update attachment urls to the new url)

anyway,

Any help is greatly appreciated!
David

I have a blog installed already and want to help out a friend by installing a second wordpress installation to a sub folder on my hosting account, and then link their domain like you mentioned above.

I have linked the domain to my hosting account and it is working fine, but I want to do something similar to what JeeShen Lee (November 30th, 2009 at 8:41 am ) wanted, but for wordpress. Currently the only thing that seems to be happening is the same thing as domain forwarding w/masking, however that isn’t going to work because I need to be able to have people access the permalinks within wordpress and have it link to their website domain, and not mydomain.com/subdomain/permalink?=33

Any ideas?