Starter for ten.

[aditogs]

Hi,

I run a number of sub-websites off one CMS (they share content occassionally). I can't get SEO friendly results so am left with name.com/?q=whatever which is messy.

I have configured via ftp an appropriate name.com/whatever directory, but this is a redirect which I don't think will help matters either.

Finally, I have tried setting up a permanent subdomain through web-sost to get whatever.name.com, but this simply frames the page, which I think will only confuse matters!

I'm trying to work out my best option - should I split up the CMS and run each one separaetely (time & effort but should guarantee good results, tho means content-sharing problems), wait and see if the search engines work it out (unlikely), or any other thing?

Would be interested to hear what you have to say...

[caveman]

I'm not sure I'm understanding the details here, but the bottom line is that you need to run each site indepdently at least from the bot's POV. One option is to set up multiple instances of the CMS, one per site, each on it's own IP, etc.

It's certainly possible to run many sites from one CMS (we do that too), and as long as they are on different IP's and serve up 200 codes you should be fine.

[aditogs]

How would I get each site to have a different IP?

[volatilegx]

How would I get each site to have a different IP?

If you have different domain names you can ask your host to put each domain on its own IP address. It will probably cost a bit extra.