Multi-store, subdomain and SEO

Hi there.

I am currently rebuilding my online shop with Open Cart. I noticed the multi-store facility which seemed cool as I own two online shops which are exclusive of each other in terms of brand but have multiple cross-overs in terms of stock.

Currently the stores both have a typical url and hold their exclusive server space and do very well with SEO.

However my question is if I follow the multi store procedure shown here will this be bad for SEO going forwards?

http://docs.opencart.com/display/openca ... ulti-store

Sure it will save me time on back end admin and bookkeeping etc but SEO is more important than saving a little time.

So what are your opinions and experiences of this please?

Thanks.

Nope. You can rank for all stores using multistores. I have 32 at the moment, all with fairly good rankings (some I haven't worked on a lot yet but still get traffic/sales). My page rank for each is at least 3 and my alexa rank US is under 100k for many of them, under 100k worldwide for a few even.

I have a thread on SEO and opencart so do a search.

Oh and http://forum.opencart.com/viewtopic.php?t=27538 is the best instructions for how to set up multistores.

The multi-store option is better as it transfers the domain authority. where as the drawback is once you are hit by Google update you all multi-store will go down at the same time,
If you are performing well on SEO go for multi-store and if you don't trust your SEO staff and then bring diversity.

Ok thanks John

Hi,

Please take a look at my extensions that I have created to create unique meta data for Categories and Products under Multi Stores
https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... n_id=34311
https://www.opencart.com/index.php?rout ... n_id=34312