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Sub Domain Or Domain?
We have 2 different shopping carts sitting on the same server: www.HotBuckles.com - Retail www.HotBuckles.com/Wholesalebeltbuckles - Wholesale
We want to completely separate our main domain ...
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Link building campaign for externally hosted sub-domain
I am launching a link building campaign for a sub-domain. I plan to ensure that the sub-domain receive enough links from the parent domain and external domains in order to speed up indexing and ...
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Addon domains and SEO
I have a shared hosting account with a main domain and many add-on domains. I don't actually use the main domain, it just has a landing page.
Can I tell bots not to index the main domain WITHOUT ...
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Registering multiple domains vs. subdomains
We are currently planning on registering multiple domains for different parts of the website we own. For example consider that we have example.com as the main domain and have assigned all the ...
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The SEO Impact of Migrating from Free Hosting on WordPress.com to Own Hosting
I have a blog (which serves as a commercial site) hosted on free wordpress.com
Since I now want to customise and get ownership of the whole thing I am thinking of either self hosting or upgrading ...
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3answers
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One domain and multiple website in folders
I am going to create a network with one domain, e.g. example.com then going to manage my websites in folders. Look below for example:
www.example.com/market
www.example.com/freebies
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Impact of dropping www from main URL on SEO
A client's website is currently at www.domain.com, with domain.com redirected there automatically. I've suggested that they reverse the redirection to drop the "www", so I can set up a subdomain that ...
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Set Up Subdomain For Demo Application. Index Or NoIndex?
I run a blog for programming and development tutorials. I am planning to set up a subdomain and host my exercises there for the visitors so that, they can experience the tutorials/ code examples in a ...
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Subdomain 000Webhost
I'm currently learning to create a blog using wordpress.org. My site is hosted free on 000webhost. I have trouble creating a Subdomain for my website. This is what I have done so far. Somebody please ...
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Using subdomains for niche SEO
Simple question:
If I have a website offering website themes and I set up subdomains like builder.themes.com, artist.themes.com would that be more beneficial than having totally separate sites or ...
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Is it fine to put different category of stuff in a single domain name?
I own a website which is regarding startups and finance. I am looking forward to work on Wordpress programming in which I would be selling wordpress themes. I thought of buying a domain name for ...
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Upgrading Blog to WordPress, keep old one or redirect?
I have had a blog for around 4 years now that has gained some success and gets tons of residual and organic traffic. I am using an outdated version of BlogEngine.NET and we are going to switch to ...
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SEO impact on subdomain for full name and obscure ccTLD
There have been a few questions on subdomains and their impact on SEO, mostly in comparison to subfolders. The closest I've found is this question but it still doesn't completely answer my query.
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Increase traffic to a site through a site on subdomain [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
We have two sites, one is mainly a portfolio site (built with Yii framework) and the other is a digital shop (built with open cart) where ...
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Will adding q&a help my site's rankings, and if so, what are the implications of a sub-domain for q&a rather than a path on the site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
One of our web properties is doing quite well without any additional links being created on the site, and our link inventory is tightly ...
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What is the best way to create a blog site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
Like usually i have a query related to my blog but I am bit confused about a question.
I want to know the best way to create a blog. ...
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Using subdomains or directories for main categories?
I have a website which references places to travel to in the world. Those places are (of course) grouped by countries.
Here is an example of an actual URL of my website:
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Subdomains vs. subdirectory – status as of 2012.
This following question by Jeff was in 2010 and I wanted to check how things have changed in the past 2 years.
My problem:
I run a site with most of the content distributed to subdomains that’s are ...
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will main domains be more seo friendly than subdomains?
Web hosting providers offer services such as hosting multiple domains in one account. Then my concern is about seo friendliness. say the main domain of my account is maindomain.com on which I have ...
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Sub domain or sub-folder? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Do subdomains help/hurt SEO?
In terms of SEO is there any advantages/disadvantages to using a sub-domain over a sub-folder:
www.mysite.com/company
company.mysite.com
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1answer
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What is better with 3 languages: domain-lang.org x 3, domain.org/lang or lang.domain.org? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How should I structure my urls for both SEO and localization?
I have three domains for similar content in three languages. One in each.
I have now been told that the ...
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2answers
476 views
How to link subdomains to main domain to get seo benefit
how can i link subdomains to my main domain to get the seo benefit ? ive seen examples using all sorts of clever redirects and php where you get the subdomains content on the main site.. but what i ...
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SEO Pros and cons of having your blog in a subdirectory or subdomain [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
From an SEO point of view is it better to have your blog running as part of your site (ie. /blog) so that it will be generating more ...
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SEO: Linking to a domain that redirects to a subdomain
I have: www.mywebsite.com which redirects to en.mywebsite.com, es.mywebsite.com, fr.mywebsite.com depending on the user language, so there's not an indexed website in www.mywebsite.com
However, when ...
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Connecting blogger blog with subdomain.mysite.com, is it good for www.mysite.com SEO/pagerank?
I client of mine has a static website www.mysite.com and a blogger blog with the same subject mysiteblog.blogspot.com and wants to move the blog inside mysite.com to give her site a SEO boost. Will ...
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changing the subdomain and SEO issue
because of "government filtering" in Iran, once in a while we have to move the whole site into a new subdomain. For example i create a new sub domain on my public_html : http://01.mydomain.com
I know ...
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SEO effects of linking to subdomain
I have http://hollywoodnose.com as a main site. Then I have http://forum.hollywoodnose.com as the subdomain.
I'm cautious to link to the subdomain from the main site. I did this before and droped ...
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Should I use multiple subdomains for a website that supports multiple cities?
So the closest example I can give is craigslist, for example:
Craigslist Winnipeg: http://winnipeg.craigslist.ca/
Craigslist Toronto: http://toronto.craigslist.ca/
Is copying this style going to ...
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2answers
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Are subdomains (for mobile-specific pages or localization) bad for SEO?
You have a website: http://www.mysite.com
You want to serve up mobile-optimized pages for mobile devices. I've seen a lot of companies redirect mobile devices to this type of subdomain:
...
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0answers
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Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder? Which is good to manage? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
Keyword in sub-domain good or keyword in sub folder
keyword.abc.com
or
abc.com/keyword/
Which of this two is good to manage?
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Is it “acceptable” for a sub domain to be hyphenated?
I am putting together a site for a portal. Some of the subdomains have rather long names and I am thinking that maybe I should use hyphens to make the subdomain names more readable.
For instance: ...
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Does Having top domain helps in getting better rankings in SERP
Recently i came across an article claiming free sub domains like blogspot,tumbler, wordpress etc are not ranked well in SERP & top domains are ranked better. Is it true?
suppose there are 2 ...
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SEO a site from another site
I use a vendor who has a site for ordering parts. The vendor sells many kinds of parts. Is it possible to perform some kind of SEO magic, where I can SEO, or direct users, to the vendor's site? For ...
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High Google page ranking lost overnight [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to diagnose a search engine ranking drop?
I had achieved a high ranking for a page on my site of the form:
http://domain.com/mypage.htm
Overnight the page is not ...
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Mysterious subdomains to my site indexed by Google
We have an issue with strange subdomains pointing to (pages on) our site such as:
www2.example.com
2.example.com
anothersite.com.example.com
A few things are perplexing:
who created them? why ...
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Is there such a thing as an “exact match subdomain”?
Google's exact match domain SEO boost is well publicised (including in a recent Stack Exchange podcast). But is there any evidence that an "exact match subdomain" gets any kind of boost?
I'm talking ...
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What impact (if any) will using the term 'portal' in my subdomain names, have on SEO for my website?
I am building a portal for a specific category of information. I am trying to decide whether to use subdomains like:
www.portal.mysite.com/home.html (home page)
...
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1answer
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Why classifieds pages use subdomains?
Can somebody tells me in terms of SEO if the use of subdomains is better than the use of folders?
Im developing a classifieds page, and I alredy know that many classifieds like craiglist use ...
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Should I remove subdomains?
I am going to optimize a site which has two subdomains since a long time ago. They are pointing to the site's main domain and are well-indexed by Google. I've read in a SEO book however that having ...
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2answers
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SEO consequences from transfering tld's to sub domains
We have a client that has multiple top level domains for the products they offer. These products are different full fledged softwares. They also have a domain for their actual company that makes ...
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Wordpress installation - Subdomain or as folder? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
I got a client portfolio website and he opens a Wordpress blog with articles related to his profession. What the best for SEO - install it ...
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Starting from scratch xxx.yyy.com or www.xxxyyy.com (any SEO difference?)
I know there are lots of answers both here (e.g. this and this) and elsewhere which deal with subdomains and their impact on SEO. However, often the questioners are either asking about subdomain ...
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1answer
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Better SEO from sub-directory or sub-domain? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
I'm working on a site that will act as a sort of companion site or sub-site to my main site.
Is there a difference in SEO of setting it ...
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2answers
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SEO: Similar, but not duplicate, content across several subdomains
I have a website that allows users to find/submit tips for doing specific fitness activities.
The site is structured as "[activity].example.com"
example.com
swimming.example.com
...
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Should I choose sub-directories over sub-domains in this case?
I'm developing an application at the moment which shows local content based on location.
Since the site is intended for local users, there won't be much need to change domain.
For example:
Someone ...
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2answers
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Subdomain versus new domain
Im adding a blog to a site. Would it be better for SEO to put it at blog.example.com or at www.exampleblog.com? I already own www.exampleblog.com .
Would combining the words together to exampleblog ...
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Google webmaster tools reporting entire nil subdomain linking to www domain, despite permanent redirect
Looking in webmaster tools it is reported that I have a thousand of so inbound links from my root domain, domain.com, to www.domain.com. This is despite the fact I have a permanent redirect setup in ...
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How to Preserve PageRank for Disappearing Pages?
Pretend that USA Today has a section of their site where the sell electronics, which they locate at http://electronics.usatoday.com. The subdomain is powered by an online electronics store called ...
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Move subdomain into subdirectory SEO question
I have read this article: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/
But I'm not 100% clear if moving my subdomain website into a subdirectory on the main domain would change ...
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Subdomains as external backlinks
as far as I know backlinks are good for SEO when they come from external or websites or domains, what about subdomain? do they have the same value of external backlinks or they are just like internal ...
