: Putting a website in a directory above the public_html,Can search engines find it?,Is this website crawled by search engines?,What is the solution? I have a Linux web host and I have added some

@Kevin317

Search engines can crawl any documents found inside of the webroot (in your case public_html) and any directories with it. They cannot directly access documents below your webroot.

For example, assume the following directory structure:

/website1
/website2
/website3
/mail
/logs
/includes
/public_html
/images
/admin
/users


Unless specific measures are put in place to prevent this, for your main website, search engines can access all of the documents in /public_html. This includes documents in /images, /admin and /users. They cannot access documents in /mail, /logs and /includes. They can only access documents from those directories if the website creates a mechanism for serving those files. (This is typically done through a pass through script of some kind which is available inside of the webroot).

In the case of addon domains, whatever directory you specify as the webroot, even if it is below your main website's /public_html directory, is that website's webroot and all of the above applies for that website. So for website1, /website1 is the webroot and search engines can access all of its content including the content in the subdirectories.

So to your real problem, if you cannot find your web pages when doing a search for your website name or domain, then you have some major SEO issues going on. There's no way for us to know but you can start to figure this out by reading Why aren't search engines indexing my content?

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