Webstudio SEO, does setting up a reverse proxy makes sense?

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I'd like to create a tutorial on how to improve SEO for Virtual Tours. Virtual Tours are usually an exported static folder with an index.html that uses deeplinking to go from one panorama to another. Like #media=1 or #media=2 to change panorama.

The idea would be to setup baserow/airtable with all the panorama names and describe each panorama with what is visible in there to have a title and description for each. Then connect it to Webstudio and create the dynamic pages. Each dynamic page having an iFrame embed that links to the specific panorama.

Even though I wouldn't call myself an expert on SEO, my common sense tells me that this is going to help the visibility of a virtual tour on search engines a lot.

The thing that makes me wonder, is that usually virtual tour creators their clients already have their website hosted with something else than Webstudio. Whether that is wordpress, shopify or whatever tool they use. In order to add these dynamic pages of the virtual tour to the client's website, you could put the Webstudio project on a subdomain like webstudio.website.com/{dynamic-page}, but subdomains don't seem to be a good idea for SEO. And I think a reverse proxy can solve that issue that it still can be placed on a subdomain, but moved to website.com/webstudio/{dynamic-page}.

I would like to check if my assumptions are correct and wonder how complicated setting up a reverse proxy is.

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

I noticed @John Siciliano has experience with reverse proxies searching the discord channel. Could you help me?

John Siciliano · Answer

It's not that subdomains are bad for seo, it's that if the root domain has built up an SEO presence then it doesnt fully carry over to the subdomain

Do these pages add seo value? Like will people find them organically?

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

So if I understand correctly it doesn't matter that much to keep webstudio on a subdomain?

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

Well that's what I'm hoping for regarding the seo value and letting people finding it organically

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

Some people create virtual cities in 360 shot with a drone, they would like for example to have all these local stores that they tag in the 360 having its own page with its own droneview. Instead of having this one large city tour full of 360 drone shots

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

Like thiskety.miasto360.pl

John Siciliano · Answer

Hm I feel like that link needs to have more context for it to be found in search engines. So maybe you create pages on your root domain that have the title, desc, etc and then an open button which opens this subdomain?

John Siciliano · Answer

So if I understand correctly it doesn't matter that much to keep webstudio on a subdomain?

It depends. If your root domain has a lot of links and seo traffic, then your subdomain doesnt benefit 100% off those. But say if you started a new site, subdomain vs root domain would make no difference

Holger · Answer

@Ronald from 360Creators You could have the most perfect SEO for your panorama pages and rank on 1. position for everything... If there are no searches for the terms you use, there will be no organic clicks. Keyword-research (for your individual panorama pages and possibly some landingpages) will have more impact on SEO-performance than technical setup.

When there's no measurable search interest, other channels, such as Social Media may help.

Ronald from 360Creators · Answer

Thanks both!

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Webstudio SEO, does setting up a reverse proxy makes sense?