There are already posts about strategies for building a marketing site separated from the web app already. They&#x27;ve suggested that the marketing site and the app be on different subdomains. These answers predate Moz&#x27;s official stance on SEO for subdomains vs subdirectories. According to https:&#x2F;&#x2F;moz.com&#x2F;community&#x2F;q&#x2F;moz-s-official-stance-on-subdomain-vs-subfolder-does-it-need-updating, creating a new subdomain isn&#x27;t good for SEO.<p>I&#x27;m building a Rails web app, but I&#x27;m considering using Wordpress for the marketing site as a quick and easy way to manage things. Here&#x27;s what I&#x27;m thinking: I&#x27;d want marketing pages (like www.mysite.com&#x2F; and www.mysite.com&#x2F;blog) to be on Wordpress, but all others would be through the Rails app.<p>Knowing the updated SEO article, how should I be building marketing site? Is the old advice of using subdomains (like app.mysite.com for logged in functionality vs www.mysite.com for marketing) still relevant and produces good SEO? Does the logged in content even affect SEO and do I want that on the same subdomain? Should I have the web app on the top level domain and forward just the marketing pages to the Wordpress site, and is that good for SEO?
Separate Marketing Site from Web App in Light of Moz SEO Post?