: Does it matter if a site lives in a subdirectory instead of the root folder? We built a (wordpress) site at the root directory of www.website.com, and then another company built a new version

@Speyer207

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We built a (wordpress) site at the root directory of website.com, and then another company built a new version of the site at website.com/dev . While they were building it they accidentally had it set to be crawled by Google, so Google crawled and indexed a bunch of pages at /dev/. They now have it pointing to the /dev/ directory so all of the urls are correct and none of them contain /dev/ anymore (these crawled dev urls produce a ton of 404's now.) However it's still in the /dev/ subfolder (nothing else is really in the root of the site.)

My question is, does it matter for SEO/for the 404 errors that we're trying to get rid of that the site still lives at the /dev/ directory if the front end URL's do NOT contain /dev/ anymore? (Note: we do still have to log in to the site at website.com/dev/wp-admin, but none of the non-admin urls have dev.) It seems strange to me for them to keep it in the /dev/ directory, but I'm not sure if it has any actual effect.

Thanks!

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