Adding Woocommerce to blog “do it as a subfolder” – is this still good SEO advice?

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Hey everyone,

I’m going to be adding an ecommerce store through Woocommerce to an existing website.

I found this comment in a search:

> SEO is better for name.com/shop as a subdomain is a separate entity as far as Google is concerned. So using the same primary domain and installing in a folder ends up having better SEO as the subdomain won’t inherit the authority or value of the main domain. Search engines treat subdomains as completely separate sites. I’d highly encourage using the subfolder to pass rank and authority from the blog to the store and vice versa. That said, you can still probably use redirects in a way that ensures Google understands the store is in a subfolder of the primary domain but allow users to access it from a subdomain optionally.

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> Yep, you don’t have to start from scratch, you can just move your WordPress WooCommerce shop into the subfolder. […] but it’s important for Google to understand that it isn’t installed as a subdomain, so you’ll want the subfolder as part of the sitemap and the folder linked to as a footer menu or something.

and I was wondering if this is still good advice in 2022? If so can anyone elaborate more on how to do this?

Or if it’s not, what would an updated recommendation be?

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