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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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]
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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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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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Can I point a CNAME to a subpage on Google Sites?
Simple question:
I followed the instructions and now I have a CNAME pointing www.mydomain.com to my Google Sites site.
I want to add another, pointing mike.mydomain.com to ...
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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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case-specific mod rewrite on Wordpress subdomain multisite
I have split a Wordpress blog into multiple category-specific blogs using subdomains, as the topics in the original blog were too broad to be lumped together effectively.
Posts were exported from the ...
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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 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 ...
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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 link a domain to a subdomain with DNS / A record?
Ok, there are a lot of topics regarding this, but there is no detailed solution..
I bought a domain www.newsite.com but my webspace is at a different hoster and there in a subdomain ...
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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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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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Canonical'd pages on subdomain showing up in Google search results
You might have heard that we launched Facebook Stack Overflow yesterday.
As part of this, we modified our code to put <meta rel="canonical" ... tags on every question and user on the ...
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Is it correct to have domains with more than 3 levels?
I've been arguing for some time about this topic, now I'd like the opinion of professionals.
My point is that a domain should be made of 2 or 3 levels at most, like:
mysite.com
blog.mysite.com
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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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Moving a WordPress installation from a subdomain to its own domain without losing PageRank
I'd like to move a WP installation from a subdomain to its own without losing the PageRank achieved by that subdomain.
What are the best steps in order to do this properly? Especially how do I set ...
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Why is my subdomain not showing up?
I am hosting a website on Host Gator: http://www.flowerwood.com. It is working correctly. I also have a subdomain that I setup using cPanel called http://plants.flowerwood.com
Right now I have a very ...
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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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Custom Domain for Tumblr
I am trying to set up a custom domain for my tumblr account.
http://blog.scribeair.com/ to http://scribeair.tumblr.com
Can some one help me how to set up the DNS records for the subdomain.
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How to track Blogger and Sites subdomains in Google Analytics?
I am using Google Apps in my domain. In this domain I have a Blogger blog and a Google Sites website. I have setup Google Analytics to track my website and it works fine. I also track blog visits and ...
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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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URLs which begin “www2”
I was sent a link recently http://www2.biotech.wisc.edu/
I've occasionally noticed this appear in some web addresses, where does the "2" come from? Does it mean anything? How would I go about getting ...
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Setting up a subdomain for an already existing subfolder [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Subfolder won't permenantly redirect to subdomain
I have a forum installed in a subdirectory (http://www.example.com/forums/), but I want to have it accessed through ...
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Adding 1 subdomain using .htaccess
Alright, so unlike other solutions I only want one subdomain to appear to be added.
Say I wanted example.com/folder/page.php to be displayed as foo.example.com/folder/page.php, how would I go about ...
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Why am I seeing 'blisque.mydomain.com' in my analytics? [closed]
When looking through my Google Analytics reports, I see visits via mydomain.com but also 'blisque.mydomain.com'. When I visit there, the site is served up, however I haven't configured this subdomain ...
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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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Subdomain still times out after set up a month ago
I'm a newbie on this and this has probably been asked already but the subjects online were close but too vague in there
answers so I've probably really messed this up. I would really appreciate ...
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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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.htaccess mod_rewrite domain to subdomain
I need to redirect any domain to a sub-domain. I know this has got to be possible but for the life of me i can not figure it out. Any help is appreciated.
For example:
domain1.com
domain2.com
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Google Analytics Subdomain Tracking for WordPress
I'm looking for the best solution to track my website's traffic using Google Analytics. I have a website that (currently) has two subdomains. The subdomains are about very different content, the TLD ...
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Recommended domain name for tablet version?
We are creating HTML5 web app for tablets ("tablet optimized" version of the web site).
Mobile domain names have already standardized itself to m.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.mobi. But how about ...
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Best way to lay-out the website when sections of it are almost identical
so, I have a minisite for the mobile application that I did. The mobile application is a public transport (transit) schedule viewer for a particular city (let's call it Foo), and I'm trying to sell it ...
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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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Google webmaster tools: changing address from domain name to subdomain
So we originally have our blog on our main domain (for example, it would be on www.example.com). Now we have moved it to http://blog.example.com. My question is how do we change the address from ...
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Subdomains vs folders, for multi account/users application
So, for a multi user web app, what is better:
http://username.domain.com
Or
http://domain.com/username
I would like to get feedback about security, scalability and maintenance specifically, app ...
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Several sub domains pointing to one folder. Fasthosts problem
I have a ASP.net website e.g. www.website.com. The idea is that you will go to the URL 'yourname.website.com' and my site will request the name from the sub domain, process it and change the content ...
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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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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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Subdomain Configuration
My developers asked me to do the following:
Configure all subdomains to point to the same server IP as the main domain.
Configure all subdomains in virtual host to point to the same location as the ...
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Duplicate content for sub domains i.e. example.com/subdomain/index.php seen the same as example.com/subdomain/ [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I have a website with some sub domain folders and seomoz is picking them up as both ...
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Redirect/Rewrite Subdomain to Subfolder
I'm trying to redirect a subdomain to a subfolder e.g. forums.domain.com to www.domain.com/forums
Note that I started the forums in the subfolder format but worried that members might mistakenly try ...
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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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domain, subdomain and ranking
we have a well ranking site on the domain(e.g. www.test.com) running for 2 years having good PR i.e. 5 and the site having its 400000+ url indexed and then we have a new site on the subdomain(e.g. ...
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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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Make all subdomains load the same page, how is it called/done?
Is there a way to make all subdomains show the same page.
I got the idea somewhere you could have a page like idk information.com and if an user typed miami.information.com he would get information ...
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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 ...
