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Webflow+Ghost: Technical SEO question

Hey everyone,

So we use web flow + ghost for website and blog. Our current domain structure is as follows:

Inkrement is nginx , and has the following proxies:
Inkrement.io proxies to webflow.inkrement.io

Inkrement.io/blog proxies to something like test.inkrement.io where we have VM hosting our ghost instance.

The reason we did it this way because we wanted blog to be on sub directory and i had heard it was th best way for SEO .

I submitted the two site maps to GSC and all the URLs are found and indexable.

Given how complex our setup is, I just wanted to make sure with y’all whether you see anything wrong here. My biggest worry is making sure google knows that the two sub domains are part of the same root.

If there is a better way to set up, would love to hear your thoughts.

Thanks!

P.s.

Site maps:
https://inkrement.io/sitemap.xml
https://inkrement.io/blog/sitemap.xml

Cc. @saifabid

posted to Icon for group SEO
SEO
on October 18, 2020
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    @Mirv wondering how this setup worked out over time? We're currently on Wordpress and it's driving me crazy (too slow, too many plugins...). Am contemplating moving to webflow and using ghost as our blog. For context, we're building an intimacy app for couples with kids. Thanks!

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    You might want to include the blog sitemap url in the sitemap url.

    How come you didn't use the webflow blog?

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      I did include the blog sitemap url
      its this one: https://inkrement.io/blog/sitemap.xml

      Lol, I think I just went with the hype, since everyone was talking about how great Ghost was and did Ghost installation. i am sure webflow CMS would have worked as well.

      In hindsight, it would have been faster and easier to just use the Webflow CMS :)

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        You can include sitemaps in a sitemap :) https://versoly.com/sitemap.xml

        I have seen 100s of founders use Ghost over Webflow CMS even with the SEO benefits of having blog in subdomain.

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          Site map within a site map! Brilliant! Thanks for sharing that.

          what do you use for the versoly blog ? Is it versoly cms? :)

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            Yes :)

            We're doing a huge rewrite of the blogging CMS using our learnings from v1.

            Plus we have 4/5 huge features coming out that will increase SEO and hopefully make Versoly a no brainer.

            Enough sales from me haha

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