: What is the best way to mirror customer's website on our domain from SEO point of view First of all - I'm absolutely new to SEO. We've lots of customers who mostly use few-pages-static-vcard

@Lee4591628

"I'm going to suggest our customers to move their websites to our domain giving us permission to fix their SEO issues."

To fix SEO related issues, why you need to move their website to your domain? I think it would be better to ask access credentials to fix the issues of client's websites.(If you are going to temporary redirection)

"What is the best way to mirror SeaView hotel website URL from SEO point of view."

1st option is sub-directory and 2nd option is sub-domain.
Choosing sub-directory or sub-domain is depends on types your your website. If it is similar to the website you are going to move, then choosing sub-directory would be better. But if it is totally different from your business, you should choose sub-domain.

Note: Google doesn't consider sub-domain as a part of main domain and doesn't distribute link juice across the site.

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@Harper822

In terms of SEO, this:
www.example.com/egypt/seaview-hotel/

is better, and even well accepted by Google because as part of Google's Webmaster Guidelines, they appreciate a hierarchal type of URL layout which is what this URL has. Additionally, management of each section of the site is far easier to the point where you can assign a customer (hotel owner I assume) a folder just for the hotel.

For example, if you have one owner that can manage SeaView Hotel, and another owner that can manage Cat Hotel, and both are located in Egypt, then your folder structure on your website can be as follows:

In document root, make a folder called "egypt". then in the "egypt" folder, create two folders. One named "seaview hotel" and one named "cat hotel". Next assign FTP access to each hotel folder with different usernames and passwords so each customer can manage his/her hotel online.

As for creating a true mirror Google will accept, copy all website files from the customers website (including the index file) to the applicable hotel folders then modify any configuration files like .htaccess file to make the hotel site fully functional. Then on either domain make use of the rel=canonical tag and have it point to the preferred domain.

For example, if the customers domain is example.com and you want a mirror at www.example.com/egypt/cat-hotel then in the cat-hotel folder, add to every file that produces HTML output the following:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com">


That way, you'll get the same content at both locations while making Google understand its the same content without it flagging you down and issuing a "duplicate content" penalty. It will only index pages from one of the two sites.

See this for more info:

support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139066?hl=en

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