Does product environment have impact on main website's SEO

[NeringaA]

We have two environments - product, where login is necessary and where the customers are working. We also have there our help desk, Q&A and knowledge base. Pretty sophisticated page regarding information on a specific topic. We also have our main page where we promote our products, company and events, etc. Main page is www.example.com, where product environment is login.example.com . Does this product environment have an impact on my main page's SEO?

[RossKernez]

Hi there,

That's a great question. I assume you are not planning to rank your product environment for any keywords, so id does not really matter. You should look at this environment more from the dev perspective. How easy it will be to manage that environment for devs if it going to be on the subdomain versus folder? Also, are you planning to index any pages from login.website.com?

Thanks

[NeringaA]

Thanks for your response!

I believe we wouldn't index any page from login.website.com as the information would only be accessible for users.  We are thinking of subdomain but also might use a completely different domain specific for a product like login.productname.com. Would this product environment have any impact to the main page? I believe not, as they have a completely different URLs and are not a subdomain or a folder.  But i am not sure. Is there one best solution that might impact SEO on main page positively?

[RossKernez]

I do not think that you can get any SEO value from that environment since you will block it from web crawlers. I think if you put that environment on the subdomain it will be easier to deindex the whole thing.

Ross

[NeringaA]

Thanks!

[RossKernez]

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