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Building on Walrus isn’t just about decentralized storage — it’s also about how your content is discovered on the open web. When developers deploy their own browsing portals for Walrus-hosted sites, the same content can become reachable through multiple hostnames. While this flexibility is powerful, it introduces an important SEO challenge: duplicate content across different domains.

A single Walrus site can be accessed through human-readable blockchain names, automatically derived subdomains tied to on-chain identifiers, or even traditional custom domains. From a user perspective this is convenient. From a search engine’s perspective, though, identical pages appearing at multiple URLs can split ranking signals and reduce visibility.

Walrus solves the storage and delivery layer, but discoverability depends on how portals are configured. The key concept is declaring a canonical host — one primary domain that search engines should treat as the “official” source. This is done using standard web hints in the HTML header or HTTP response, telling crawlers which version to index. Without this, indexing power gets diluted, and your decentralized site may struggle to rank even if the content is strong.

Portal operators also have configuration controls that determine which hostname styles are enabled. If alternative subdomain formats aren’t necessary, they can be disabled to reduce duplication at the source. When custom domains are used, portals can be set to serve only that domain, ensuring a single consistent entry point for both users and search engines.

What’s important here is that none of these steps change how Walrus stores or verifies data. The blobs remain decentralized, tamper-resistant, and content-addressed. These optimizations happen purely at the access and presentation layer — the bridge between decentralized storage and traditional web infrastructure.

This highlights a broader truth about Walrus: it’s designed not just for on-chain permanence, but for real-world usability.