: What are the pros/cons of ecommerce store as subdomain vs integrated into main domain? I have a website www.example.com which is currently not an ecommerce site. Now I want to sell some stuff.

@Eichhorn148

When you are using two different pieces of software, it is far easier to host the two parts of your site on different subdomains. It is very common to have:


blog.example.com/ running WordPress
store.example.com/ running Magento or WooCommerce
jobs.example.com/ powered by a company that handles HR example.com/ with "brochure" style sales pages


When you have a small number of subdomains with the same copyright information that all link to each other, Google will treat it all as one site. Some SEO experts will claim that such an arrangement is bad for SEO, but in my experience subdomains for hosting purposes work fine.

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@Ravi8258870

As most search engines see subdomains as a new site it could be hard to sync your main domain and e-commerce subdomain. Keeping your e-commerce modules in the main website provides you to maintain your site and improving its SEO easily. You can easily see most professional e-commerce companies keep their e-commerce modules integrated.

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