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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Move site to new domain divided by language across subdomains
I managed to find a nice domain for a fairly fledgling site of mine that actually hasn't been parked by scumbag squatters. Given the upcoming move I'm thinking I'd take the opportunity to split the ...
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Getting a domain sub-directory url for a new server
I have an web application server running tomcat and i need to publish my APIs to internet users. However I don't have a domain name for this server and I can only put the ip address of this server ...
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Not able to track traffic on subdomain using Google Analytics
I'm trying to track traffic for my sub-domain, but it's not happening.
This is how it's set up.
My partner has a domain called sub1.partner.com. This domain points to partner1.mydomain.com. The idea ...
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Pointing a subdomain to Github Pages
I set up an Octopress blog on Github Pages at myusername.github.com. I now want blog.myusername.me (which currently has a Wordpress blog set up) to point to this Octopress blog.
So I followed the ...
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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 ...
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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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How do I set up a “gateway” for a specific subdomain?
I'm looking at setting up a website that will run a few different apps. Most of them can be managed by an Apache server, but I've got one specific thing that will run on a custom HTTP server.
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3 language website using subdomains and mapped domains. Add subdomains or mapped domains to WMT?
I have a new wordpress multisite setup.
The main language is Italian and there are two subdomains using en and de for english and german.
There is no auto translation plugins being used.
The ...
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How can I secure an installation of MediaWiki?
I want to run an installation of MediaWiki as a Internet-accessible personal wiki, running on wiki.mysite.com. However, I want to ensure that I am the only one who can read and write to this wiki. In ...
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Do Dynamic Subdomains Harm SEO or not?
I am establishing a new website for just resumes, and I structured my htaccess as to provide dynamic subdomains as:
marketing.resumedomain.org/index.html
sales.resumedomain.org/index.html
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Unable to track a subdomain with google analytics
I have a download page on a subdomain (downloads.easyjob.net) and I'm tracking the "virtual page view" to the download following these instructions .
That part works fine. However, I also want to ...
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How to host a subdomain of a domain which is associated with blogger?
I have a domain www.example.com which is hosted on Blogger platform. Is any hosting site like Blogger, WordPress where I can host my sub-domian like abc.example.com? My original website ...
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How does CNAME work for Google Apps for My Domain?
I recently got a domain and set it up with Google Apps including setting up sub-domains for the different services.
After set up the CNAME, all my subdomains point to ghs.google.com. I was wondering ...
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Setting up Gmail subdomain on my domain
I just set up my domain with Google Apps. During the Gmail setup process the tutorial said we could also set up mail.mydomain.com and we'd look at it later. But it never came up.
Now, I can't seem to ...
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Adding a user specific website to a domain
I just got a domain (first time) and set it up with Google Apps.
I was wondering if it was possible to set up personal websites for individual users on the domain using notation such as abc@xyz.com ...
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Dev site indexed by Google
I was developing a new version of our site on a subdomain (dev.oursite.com) and the robots.txt with the disallow got replaced at some point, so the site got indexed by Google and other search engines. ...
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Setting up a LaunchRock page without hosting
Looking to buy a 'dot-com' domain as cheap as possible, and set the DNS to forward to the LaunchRock service without having to setup a hosting act. Is this possible, and if so how?
I've asked roughly ...
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Moving from Subdirectory to Subdomain structure
I have a website (powered by Rails/Postgres and nginx) where I had setup a blog and a coupons section as:
http://myrailsapp.com/blog/ http://myrailsapp.com/coupons/
Blog is powered by wordpress and ...
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DNS: How can I determine which IP a subdomain is associated with?
I bought a domain(tohid.ir.tc) from a hosting company. it seems that it is a sub domain of this domain(Ir.tc).
it made lot's of problems for me. I don't now to which DNS server it is pointing. both ...
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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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Why insert static files ( css, images, js, ecc ) in a subdomain?
Why so many big and little sites inserts static files ( css, images, js, ecc ) in a subdomain like media.example.com or s2.static.example.com ?
What are the advantages ?
Why not just a directory ...
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Personalized sub-domain URLs
Most of the SaaS companies, some social networking, and blog services (like Wordpress.com and blogger) create a personalized sub-domain for each user, e.g. username.website.com
What is the general ...
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LaunchRock CNAME configs, what do they do?
Trying out LaunchRock, and ran across this:
general-instructions-for-creating-your-cname-record
Basically as far as I'm able to tell they only support using your sub-domain as the URL, not having ...
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How does CPanel create subdomains?
I obviously know how to create subdomains via CPanel but does anyone know what exact method CPanel uses to achieve this?
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How to redirect calls from http://svn.example.com to http://dev.example.com:8443?
How to redirect calls from http://svn.example.com to http://dev.example.com:8443?
Should I be asking our Cisco networking guy to set this up (and if so, what do I tell him to do?), or should I be ...
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Subdomain not created
I am trying to create a sub domain like labs.7sisters.in for the folder with document root public_html/7sislabs . If I visit the site http://7sisters.in/7sislabs/ its working fine . But ...
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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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Why does my link to a Subdomain not work?
My hosting provider has problems. I put Drupal on a sub-domain of my site. When I try logging in or clicking a link it comes to a Internal server error. But if I navigate to the actual directory it ...
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domain.com/blog vs blog.domain.com [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subdomain versus subdirectory
I'm about to start my own blog (adding it to a domain already owned by me) and I'm wondering what is the best way to set it up. There are ...
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Bluehost Automatic Sub-domain Creation
I am working on a small project in which people create an account and they are given a sub-domain like username.mydomain.com
However, while this address is shown in the address bar of the browser, ...
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Just bought a domain, setting up a couple server applications for the first time [closed]
I recently bought a domain, mainly for website experimentation, game servers and a ventrillo server. I'm running all this from my home computer, and I am using freedns.afraid.org as my dns nameserver. ...
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setup test domain ready for site launch
I'm about to launch a site on a live server, after developing it with xampp on localhost. I first want to test the site before i make it live. How do i setup this up so I have it in a subdomain (i.e. ...
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How do I create a subdomain for a site hosted by someone who does not allow it?
I want to create a subdomain for a site hosted by Jimdo (a DIY website builder).
Jimdo does not allow subdomains however. I am trying to find a workaround where a subdomain is hosted elsewhere but ...
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How can I alias domains to subdomains?
I have a main site with a bunch of subdomains created. Each subdomain is a blog and I want each blog to have its own domain name i.e.
thisguy.com -> blog1.mainsite.com
thatguy.com -> ...
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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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Broken links in content reports when tracking subdomains with Google Analytics
I have a tracking code that I use on my main site and my blog, which is on a subdomain:
www.example.com
blog.example.com
I have a single profile in Google Analytics. I use advanced segments to ...
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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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Is there an more user friendly alternative to afraid.org for DNS subdomains?
I would like "people out there" to be able to host subdomains to my domain easily. I'm aware that you can do this using afraid.org (free) and it works well, however for "people out there" to use ...
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Moving a domain and staging url
I have a website with web hosting I am planning on switching away from (Windows Server).
So I got a hosting plan with a linux server and I was going to build a site there using Perch CMS.
Right now ...
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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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Incoming Cname does not show the subdomain
I have a subdomain:
sub.domain-one.com which has a CNAME which points to sub.domain-two.com.
All good. But when I enter sub.domain-one.com I don't see the sub.domain-two.com, but the basic page of ...
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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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Can I use the same SSL cert for HTTPS and FTPS
I am looking to get an extended SSL certificate for a server that is handling one of my subdomains. Can I use the same certificate for https://sub.example.com and ftps://sub.example.com, assuming that ...
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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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How to have One DNS and two different webhost?
I have one domain name i.e. example.com registered via godaddy.
Now, I want to host my personal blog on blogger/blogspot with this
url (i.e. on subdomain) "http://subdomain.example.com"
And, I want ...
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Setting Up a Subdomain with Godaddy and BigBlackBag
OK, so I am taking over the site for my dad's small business, and whoever helped him with it before used BigBlackBag.com to build the site. I basically want to get rid of it and start fresh, but I ...
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How to point a domain to another subdomain?
I'm really a newbie about this issues so excuse me if this is a rather dumb question, I'm trying to point a domain a client of mine bought to a sub-domain of mine, they're both from different ...
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How can I point a subdomain at another server? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to point a domain to another subdomain?
Is it possible to set up a subdomain to render content of another server?
Let's say I wanted google.domain.com to render ...
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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 ...
