Google’s John Mueller warns that free subdomain hosting services create unnecessary SEO challenges, even for sites doing everything else right.
The advice came in response to a Reddit post from a publisher whose site shows up in Google but doesn’t appear in normal search results, despite using Digitalplat Domains, a free subdomain service on the Public Suffix List.
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Mueller told the site owner that they likely aren’t making technical mistakes. The problem is the environment they chose to publish in.
He wrote:
“A free…

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