: What are the SEO implications of using one domain as home site with additional domains as subdirectories? I own three domain names: example.com example.supply example.farm I want them to

@Cofer257

Absolutely do not do this. Google will consider those 3 unique, separate sites and your authority/pagerank will be greatly diminished. So instead of having one site that ranks well, you'll have 3 that rank not-so-well. Seriously, there is no good reason to do this. Do yourself a favor and use one domain.

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@BetL925

You can't mix a single website using different TLDs, they will always be separate sites as on different domains. So what would be happening is that you have three separate websites.

The SEO issues I see here are that there could be duplication of content between the three sites, so this could affect both sites adversely in search engines rankings of the sites.

Also this could look like you are trying to do something underhand within the search engines, so they might penalise the site for trying to 'game' the search results. They sites could like like doorway pages, or some other spammy type sites.

This could also create confusion and distrust with users, especially if you are interlinking between the sites. If someone clicks what looks like an internal link in the navigation, but goes to another site on a different domain, but looks exactly the same, they may become suspicious and stop browsing both sites.

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