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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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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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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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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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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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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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 do I setup a subdomain in godaddy.com and point to another server?
When I create a subdomain in godaddy.com the only option is to forward that subdomain, and I don't want to forward it, I want it to point to another server. I don't want the main site or the email ...
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Forwarding a subdomain to main domain using Godaddy
I have current blog, which was hosted on Tumblr at http://blog.ryanhayes.net. I'm moving it over to http://ryanhayes.net, and have all the 301 redirects set up for the blog entries to map to my new ...
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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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Setting up a subdomain for an already existing subfolder [duplicate]
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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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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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change the subdomain and keep the rest of the url
I'm working on a multilingual website, and I want to generate the links in this way:
The site is domain.tld and defaults to English,
It has some subdomains like fr.domain.tld which will be in ...
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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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Duplicate content for sub domains i.e. example.com/subdomain/index.php seen the same as example.com/subdomain/ [duplicate]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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DNS sub-domain registration
Is it possible to register a sub-domain if you don't own the base domain?
For example, could I register NickLarsen.random.com if I don't own random.com?
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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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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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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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Multiple Wordpress installs on subdomains affecting SEO?
I am working on a website for a photography business in town and was asked to do something I'd never considered before. The company wants a basic webpage for it's "general" business -- ...
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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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Preventing Spiders on One Subdomain?
We currently host multiple sites on the same domain that all live in the same physical directory on the server. Each is database driven and lives at a unique subdomain. For example, site1.example.com, ...
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Is an externally-hosted subdomain a security risk?
A company I've been developing a web site for wants to keep their current domain, which is something like company.parentcompany.com. Because we wanted to use a different CMS, the parent company ...
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What is the proper way to setup Google Apps email accounts for a subdomain?
Let's say I've registered domain.com at enom and set it up to use Google Apps for email by rerouting DNS to enom's servers and editing the MX records there. That works flawlessly. Now let's say I ...
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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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How do i tell google to ignore my subdomain?
I did a search and i found a link to my site... twice. They are exactly the same except one is www and the other is static. How do i tell google to ignore everything in my static domain?
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Why should I use a subdomain structure over a directory structure?
I want to do blog.mysite.com but i know it will negatively impact my PR with Google. When is it preferable to structure your site like that vs mysite.com/blog? Is it only for the benefit of PR?
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WikiMedia on a subdomain - creating a new page
If I have a WikiMedia installation in a subdomain, like wiki.example.com, how do I create a new page? I mean, they said that when I put a link in the wiki, it would appear red. If I clicked it, it ...
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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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Domain held at one registry, need to redirect to subdomain on my own hosting provider
There are lots of questions around this general area, but I haven't seen one that exactly mirrors what I'd like to know. It's per the title really. My understanding (and what I'm told by my host) is ...
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Some Punycode URLs redirect to Unicode but others don't, why?
I've setup two subdomains, each using punycode:
http://xn--xxa.hawx.me/ -> http://μ.hawx.me/
http://xn--l6h.hawx.me/ -> http://♪.hawx.me/
If you visit the unicode versions, ♪.hawx.me will stay the ...
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Find child domains of a URL
Is there a way to find all the child domains of a URL?
e.g. parent url: www.example.com
Sample child domains:
www.a.example.com
www.abracadabra.example.com
www.zoo.example.com
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How to solve this problem with my subdomain?
I have my site hosted at http://blog.rgksugan.in.
I have set a subdomain in it for my blog.
But after landing on my blog whatever other links I click i get the link as
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How to forward a [sub]domain to another address? (not just HTTP!)
I have bought domain1.me from GoDaddy... (yeah, I know... but ME domain registrars seemed quite hard to find...) I'm mainly hosted at 1and1. I have registered subdomain sub1.domain1.me and redirected ...
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Getting SSL certificate for a sub-domain
Our company owns a domain say www.mycompany.com. I understand that it is trivial to get an SSL certificate for above domain since we do have a website running on that address. We want a certificate ...
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should I move my completed site from it's subdomain to it's own hosting? Will it hurt SEO
I have one hosting account and about 11 domains. The domains are completely individual not having content, topic or themes in common, 11 indidivual domains and websites.
To save some cash up front I ...
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At what thresh-hold should i get my blog its own domain?
Is there some kind of thresh-hold to start seriously considering buying a domain and moving away from the [name].[blogspot,etc].com?
In this case I have a blog that focuses on personal miscellany ...
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Subdomain as home page
I'm looking at how best to launch a project using subdomains to create around 10 'minisites' of sufficiently differing content using the subdomain as branding. There will never really be much content ...
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Duplicate subdomains and SEO [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is duplicate content and how can I avoid being penalized for it on my site?
I have two subdomains for the same website. One has quite a high page rank, the other ...
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Apache 2 virtual host configuration for subdomain redirection
I'm trying to set up a mail subdomain on my site that will simply redirect to my Google Apps mail account. I thought I could use the Apache 2 vhost configuration below, but it's not working:
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Are page ranks for subdomains independent?
If I have a domain name say stackexchange.com and I want to host 2 sites X and Y as subdomains of that site.
Will x.stackexchange.com help out y.stackexchange.com in page rank? Or will google treat ...
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show content on domain.com from a sub directory
I have a domain that looks like domain.com
on the server files look like:
<www>
<mydirectory>
<otherstuff>
<asubdomain>
index.html
.htaccess
ok, so when you open the ...
