Identify Your Preferred Domain to Improve SEO Results

By default, your site is available on the *.my.site.com or *.force.com domain, but you can add a custom domain so that your site URLs reflect your company brand. However, multiple domains for the same site, meaning *.my.site.com, *.force.com, and custom domains, can dilute search engine results and lower page ranking. If you have multiple domains, identify which domain to use for crawling and indexing your site’s pages.

Required Editions

Available in: Salesforce Classic and Lightning Experience

Available in: Enterprise, Performance, and Unlimited Editions

Applies to: LWR and Aura sites

User Permissions Needed
To customize or publish an Experience Cloud site:	Create and Set Up Experiences AND View Setup and Configuration AND be a member of the site OR View Setup and Configuration AND be a member of the site AND have appropriate role-based site access

The Preferred Domain setting appears in Experience Builder only if you have multiple domains associated with your Aura or LWR site. For an enhanced LWR site, or for an Aura or LWR site with multiple domains where you haven’t identified a preferred domain, the site’s first custom domain alphabetically is the preferred domain.

1. In Experience Builder, go to Settings | General.
2. Select your preferred domain.
   

Note

• Make sure that you configure your preferred domain before submitting the sitemap to a search engine. After your site is public, the search engine shows all the custom URLs that you added to the sitemap.
• You can set only HTTPS preferred domains.
• Issues can occur if you configure preferred domains for two LWR or Aura sites that use the same custom domain with different path prefixes. For example, let’s say you have two sites, https://example.com/site1 and https://example.com/site2. If you configure preferred domains for both sites, then site2 uses the preferred domain for site1. To avoid problems in this scenario, set the Preferred Domain field to None for both sites.

See Also

• Configure a Custom Domain for Your Experience Cloud Site
• Custom Domains
• Generate a Manual Sitemap Refresh for Your Experience Builder Site