How good is Bubble for SEO?

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Hi guys,

I have a project that is a non-Bubble based website (so, pure PHP/HTML/CSS/JS), and that is performing extremely well related to SEO. The thing is that now I’m thinking about rebuilding it as a Bubble project from scratch, since it would allow me to add new features much faster than my current version, and I’m really afraid of screw the SEO up with the new Bubble version.

How much would I lose my SEO efforts during all these months if I replace my current website with a Bubble-made new website?

Thanks!

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A lot since,

  1. The urls change.
  2. Bubble does not have actual interlinking happening between pages so crawl rate becomes bad.

Bubble is not meant for SEO.
So keep that in mind.

Edit: I meant a lot to how much he would lose.

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@ayushsharmamedia thanks a lot for the info! So, I should be careful and probably not make this thing. What a pity! :frowning: Thanks for the info!

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Hey @eurogar if you change the URL/link to an WordPress or Webflow as an homepage it should recover the traffic you had on the previous website, then you can connect the WordPress/Webflow homepage to Bubble to act a backend app.

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This has been my strategy for every app I’ve built in Bubble. Creating a marketing site built on a SEO-friendly platform and leaving the app logic to Bubble gets you the best of both worlds. I even have a signup page built in WordPress that connects to Bubble, removing any barriers and resulting in a smooth flow for end users.

To anyone who’s asked my opinion I have stuck to telling people they should only intend to build apps in Bubble if SEO is not a factor. There’s too much out of your control to really impress Google and other search engines (especially in regards to speed and TTFB). This may change in the future but for now I recommend not dropping your existing website.

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@William1 and @philip thanks a lot for the info about the SEO! I’m very interested in do what you say: using Bubble for the backend/API and connect another landing page to that. How can I do that? Thanks a lot!

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@William1 have you solved how to use same base domain for both WordPress marketing site and Bubble app? I thought you couldn’t allocate a subdomain to Bubble w/o lots of pain. So, do you have your marketing site at cooltool.com and the app at app.cooltool.com? Interested to learn how you’ve solved for this.

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I haven’t experienced any problems with this configuration. You need to set two DNS A Records for your subdomain pointing to Bubble’s IP. The first: app, second: www.app.cooltool.com. Your WordPress site would live at a subdomain with CName Record www pointing to @ which should be an A Record of cooltool.com.

Note: not all DNS providers are created equal. In my case I’ve had success setting up over twenty subdomains using Cloudflare.

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Bubble has added some SEO tools where you can rank your website.

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Could you please tell us more about why you think that Bubble is bad for SEO aside from speed issue ?
Thanks :slight_smile:

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I’d also be interested to know from the Bubble team what their approach would be to maximise SEO efforts? and their opinion on this topic.

Paul

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