The CMS starter tier doesn’t allow secondary domains, just the one subdomain used mostly for a blog. If we wanted to have 2 demo sites, would the following type of url pattern work in Hubspot?
www.example.com/demo1 (page used as the demo1 home page even though it’s just a normal website page)
www.example.com/demo1/about (mimicing a folder structure but it’s in the url only)
I wasn’t sure if Hubspot is going to allow the type of url structure as seen in the 2nd url example.
If this url structure is not possible, any suggestions on how to handle the 2 demo sites and still stay on CMS starter?
Although upgrading to Pro is a possibility, I wanted to explore other options first due to the significant jump in the monthly cost.
Thanks,
Terry McMillan
Hi @tmcmillan99, happy to answer your question about subdomains and directory paths with CMS Starter.
you can 100% add as many “folders” to your URLs to create directory paths for your pages and I highly recommend this as a strategy for grouping your content for SEO purposes. Your sitemap will create the “folders” in the background.
Definitely recommend creating the structure you’ve proposed for
/demo1/page1
/demo1/page2
/demo2/page1
/demo2/page2
There shouldn’t be any limitation at the page level for creating this - the only roadblock you might encounter is your total page limit, with CMS Starter you can only have up to 50 website pages.
The question about subdomains has popped up a lot lately, I just posted on Linkedin about subdomains vs subdirectories if you want a little more insight - I’m also happy to answer any further questions!
@Jnix284 Thanks for the confirmation on my thought process. I will talk with my team and see what direction they want to go in.
Terry
You’re welcome @tmcmillan99, happy to help!
Thank you for this answer Jennifer. I just read your LinkedIn article also. I have had several questions about this topic and you are the first one who has helped bring some clarity. I’m trying to decide if the Hubspot starter package is best for our small nonprofit. We can’t afford the Professional package just yet but I would like to switch from our current platform to HS so I wanted to make sure the Starter package will work for us before I do. We have a domain name already and our donation platform uses a subdomain for donations. So, that would be our 1 subdomain. My question is if I wanted to create a store on our website in the future to sell t-shirts would that be a subdomain in HS or could I do the store as a general page/subdirectory? And could I do an online store with the Hubspot Starter Platform? From reading your article I’m glad I could do our blog without using the 1 subdomain. Thank you for your help!