Subdomain is a domain which is a part of a larger domain. For example, 'sub.example.com' is subdomain of 'example.com' domain.
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Create subdomains via C-Panel or via domain registrar?
I am a novice, so excuse me if it sounds dummy. I read a few similar questions on this topic here but they did not answer my question.
I have a personal website, hosted with C-panel control panel. ...
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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]
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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]
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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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www subdomain for my webpage
How many customer do I lose if my webpage is not accessible from www subdomain. Can anyone who has webpage analytics with large number of visitors provide me statistic how many users use ...
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How can I tell GoogleBot that a subdirectory is now a subdomain?
I had about a million pages of a catalog indexed under a subdirectory, and now that's moved to a subdomain. GoogleBot is crawling each one of them and getting a 301 redirect to the new location. Even ...
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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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Dotted subdomain name or new domain?
I have a company website hosted at www.BRAND.com (where BRAND is a generic name).
The company want to develop a "micro website" for one of their campaigns, named "Inspired By BRAND".
I have two ...
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Seeking htaccess help: Converting multiple subdomains (both http and https) to www.domain.com using .htaccess
I've been trying to get an answer to this question on other forums (the folks at SuperUser thought this was the place I needed to post) and via my connections, but I haven't gotten very far. Hopefully ...
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Prioritize webhost for a domain?
I have a sub domain( I do not own the domain) but using Cpanel I am able to set A, NS, Cname records for a sub domain. What I want to do is to associate the subdomain with two webhost and prioritize ...
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setting up freedns with an existing domain
I've been running a webserver off of a pc at a static IP successfully for the past 5 months.
recently however, I've moved into another apartment and my ISP only provides a dynamic IP (my IP changes ...
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CNAME cross subdomain mapping problem
I have the exact same problem as this but I don't understand the solution.
I have 2 different domain name(with different hosting/provider) domain-one.com and domain-two.com which I want ...
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Subdomain In Addon Domain Is Not Working
I added a new addon domain to my cPanel hosting. With the new added addon domain, I try to make some subdomain of it. But, the subdomain is not working like subfolder does.
This is my situation:
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Assign subdomains to separate ports on web server
I have set up an Abyss web server as a little experiment, and I want to know if it is possible to assign subdomains to different ports on the machine the web server is running on.
I have a couple web ...
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.com vs .me for personal and blogging sites. Which one is good regarding seo [duplicate]
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Does Google penalize .me or .tv sites?
I basically have a domain under my name with .com extension. I am planning to use it for my portfolio and also as a regular blog.
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Domain changes required for SSL integration
Currently my site supports regular payment options (User is taken to Payment Gateway/PG website). Now I'm trying to implement "seamless" PG integration. I need SSL for this. I'm having a dedicated ...
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Google Analytics for subdomains
I have two WordPress multisites under one domain - city-x.domain.com and city-y.domain.com. domain.com is a landing page where you select your city, and a cookie will redirect the user to that city on ...
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How an offline main domain can influence traffic on an active sub domain
The website(s) design is for a company active in 3 different areas.
As an example lets use the following structure:
www.example.com
[sub1.example.com] [sub2.example.com] ...
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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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Root Domain Redirects Incorrectly To Https instead of to WWW
Why do visits to my website work without "www", but not to specific pages on it?
I recently moved my website to a new webhost, RedHat's OpenShift (a PAAS). It requires using Cname records to setup ...
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Redirecting a subdomain from wordpress.com to an external web address
I have a question about redirecting a subdomain of a blog hosted on wordpress.com to an external URL.
Given the following:
1) I own a domain name foobar.com purchased from another registrar (not ...
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Subdomain redirect to WWW
I have the domain example.com and the test.example.com running on apache server. For some reason when I try to visit test.example it is redirected to www.test.example and by consequence a Server not ...
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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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subdomain not working and added /mysubdomains/devsitename
I am having a site www.example.com which working fine and I have a number of sub-domains which are working fine except one.
When I gave the url subdomain.example.com the address bar showing as below
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Do subdomains need to be defined through domain registrar?
I have bought a new domain name from GoDaddy. Let's say it is abcd.com.
On GoDaddy's DNS Managing page, I changed A(Host) part to
@ = 74.125.232.215
which is www.google.co.uk's IP address.
Now if ...
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Why is “www.mysite.com” different from “mysite.com”?
In any browser if I use www.mysite.com or just mysite.com the web page is correctly retrieved, but I am having trouble with Google Analytics and Facebook App.
Facebook:
To be able to get Likes, I ...
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.htaccess 301 Redirect for wildcard subdomains
I run WordPress in Network mode, which means I can have multiple websites running off one installation of WordPress. Each website runs as a subdomain. WordPress handles this using .htaccess, and a ...
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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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Options for different domain and hosting
The situation
I have a hosting service (one.com) on which I have installed a wordpress.org site in a subdirectory 'wordpress':
myhost.com/wordpress/
(myhost.com is actually my own domain, but it ...
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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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Domain mapping / aliassing to subdomain
We have a VPS (cpanel/whm) for hosting several website, each site is created in subdomain
one.domain.com, two.domain.com, three.domain.com, etc.
now we want to have unique domain for every ...
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Do I need a subdomain or CNAME?
I have a domain with Godaddy (mysite.com) which is pointing to my AWS EC2 box.
Now I need a launchpad link on my website so that if the user clicks on it it would point to launch.mysite.com
This ...
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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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.htaccess Forward all mail subdomains to /webmail/
I would like to write a .htaccess rewrite command that takes any url with a subdomain mail and forwards them to whatever domain included that subdomain with /webmail at the end.
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mail.zane.com ...
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How to silently auto-load from a subdirectory, but allow internal paths to think the file is located at site root?
I have files in my site root, and also files in its "Iternet_IE" directory. I need to:
1.) be able to call/include other files (e.g. headers or footers) from within files at either of those ...
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Apache: how to create subdomain on name-based virtualhost?
i have name-based hosting, lets name it my.address.com - my friend have 'white' ip -address.com and gave me virtual machine than i can access via ssh, also, he made some magic with ports and now after ...
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Self signed SSL certificate with a wild card - works for sub domain, fails for the main domain
For development purposes I created a self signed SSL certificate where CN = *.example.com.
After installing the certificate, when browsing to any sub domain https://sub.example.com I got the nice ...
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In apache, how to map site.example.com to example.com/site
I'm sure there is documentation for how to do this, but I don't know what it's called so I don't even know how to start searching.
On my webserver, example.com, i have a site called site. It's ...
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How can I put a totally new prestashop store on a sub-domain I created?
I need a bit of advice. I have an e-commerce site on www.mydomain.com and I have now created a sub domain that will have a totally new store running on it (all installed any ready to go). I use ...
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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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Subdomain redirects to different server, maintaining original URL
I just took over the webmaster position in my organization, and I'm trying to set up a development environment separate from the production environment. The two environments are hosted with different ...
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Install Moodle to subdomain with Softaculous via cPanel
I installed Moodle to a directory with Softaculous. Since it doesn't allow installing to a subdomain, after installing it I created a subdomain and pointed the destination (of the subdomain) to the ...
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How to force user to use subdomain? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I prevent access to an add-on domain's root directory from main hosting domain name
I am hosting a webshop with OpenCart and its current URL is e.g. ...
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Attach a Wordpress.org blog to my BigCommerce Store as a sub-domain
I am stuck in a peculiar situation. I have a store on BigCommerce configured with a domain from GoDaddy (mystore.com). I recently created a custom wordpress blog and hosted it on 1and1 hosting ...
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How do I set up a double domain like domain2.mydomain.com and mydomain.com?
I would like to set up a server similar to Google's. Their domain acts like a double domain, like you can use these URLS, "play.Google.com" or "apps.Google.com", to go to different sites.. For ...
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creating subdomain(sub.domain.com) and redirecting to another server (sub.domain.org) whiles maintaining .com in the url
Redirecting to different server but same domain.
I have 2 servers on different hosts. One has domain.com and the other domain.org. domain.org has more resources.
Now i want to create a sub domain on ...
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Redirect subdomain (weblog) to new domain without access to .htaccess
I have a blog that has PR 1 on a subdomain aaaa.domain.com of a blog server domain.com.
Now I want to buy a domain newdomain.com and I want to tell google webmaster to redirect the old subdomain to ...
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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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tumblr blog under subdomain blog.mysite.com - do i still get the benefit?
ive got a tumblr blog for my main site, i use it more as a proper blog with articles and images, rather than just a tumblog.
The blog is mapped to blog.mydomain.com
Becuase of the ease of 'social' ...
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Amazon EC2: How do I create a subdomain on an instance?
I have apache2 and tomcat installed on Amazon ec2 instance running Ubuntu.
tomcat is serving the application and I want to create subdomains for example.com and abc.example.com to serve to different ...
