Does it matter if your key site is not your primary domain on your webhosting account?
 

My main site is not the primary domain on my webhost plan (on which I have a dozen sites hosted). So it's a subfolder on the document root - /public_html/xxxx.com rather than /public_html

Does this matter at all as far as Google is concerned, or for any other reason?

Shouldn't be visible from the client side so doesn't matter.

Google or anyone else cant see in what system folder you have site/files stored.

Thanks, I thought that was probably the case. :thumbs-up

I've read a couple of people here though say things like having a Wordpress SEO plugin like YOAST is a bad idea, because Google can see you have it (they appear to mean that Google can see inside your Wordpress folders, rather than detecting it from tell-tale signs of overoptimization and such).

Yoast, Rankmath, and the other "SEO" enhancers are totally 100% fine as far as google is concerned. They actually prefer it.

These plugins make the site more understandable to the search engines and help you optimize your content so it's more searchable.

Wordpress ain't bad without it. But Google has a lot of features that Wordpress can't natively take advantage of.

That is correct, Google and anyone else can see that you have Yoast installed but that's because it adds a comment line into your HTML near the top of the page. All you have to do to see it is right click and view source code. Lots of WP plugins do this.

TBH, I think you´ve done it right.

When we run a dedicated server for our collection of sites, our primary was public_html

so when you opened the server, you have all your other sites listed in alpha order and the members area, images and galleries, all the other content sub folders all listed amongst the first directory...

would have been better as public_html/primary

so now, these sub folders only could be seen when opening that site.

With the primary as the main folder, it was a cluster fuck, a mine field to first look at :2 cents: