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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Should I include “www” in my canonical URLs? What are the pros and cons?
What are the pros and cons of having http://www.example.com/ vs http://example.com/?
For example a problem I'm aware of is that if I use a domain without www I can't set a cookie for the current ...
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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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Subdomain versus subdirectory
I recently moved from having a main site like www.example.com with a subdomain associated site yyy.example.com, to moving everything off the subdomain to a subdirectory like www.example.com/yyy/, with ...
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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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Do subdomains help/hurt SEO?
If I have mysite.com, and blog.mysite.com, do search engines see those as 1 site or 2? Will using subdomains hurt SEO? I have some technical reasons why I can't use mysite.com/blog.
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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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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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Choosing which domain to secure
We've got a website that is served on both www.example.com and just example.com - we've never done any sort of forcing users from one domain to the other, so if they land on example.com then that's ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Why does my site only work with a www in the URL?
I'm a bit confused as the following points:
There is a simple text website, with no javascript, that works only with the prefix. http://www.mysite.corporation.com works but ...
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Is it possible to find all subdomains for a certain domain?
a client of mine is currently hosting a web-project on one of his servers with some sub domains for previews, testing etc.
Those are really hard to guess sub domains like:
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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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Are co.uk domains and the likes subdomains?
I was wondering, are co.uk domains and others with an additional dot subdomains? If not, why not, and if so, can you create sub-sub domains?
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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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CNAME: does a cname change the url that the browser displays?
I have a web site www.somewhere.com and I want the alias fr.somewhere.com.
I set up a CNAME record for www.somewhere.com alias fr.somewhere.com. When a user types in http://fr.somewhere.com in their ...
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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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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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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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How can I tell Google Analytics to not use cookies for my sub domain?
I have my web site at example.com, and i have also setup a sub domain for serving static content at static.example.com.
On my web pages I'm using Google Analytics, so it will attach its cookies to all ...
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Redirect/rewrite dynamic URL to sub-domain and create DNS for subdomain
I have created an application in PHP, I would like to re-direct the following URL to corresponding sub-domain.
Dynamic URL pattern:
http://mydomain.com/mypage.php?user_name=testuser
I wish to ...
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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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.htaccess directory to subdomain
I have been trying to make a subdomain from a directory (made by .htaccess) to be used as the main page starting like http://domain.com/sub/2/3/4.html and turning into ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Images on a subdomain, hosted on the same server — will simultaneous downloads increase? (CDN)
Browsers only allow you to download a limited number of concurrent files from the same domain.
Would a subdomain for images (basically as a content delivery network) on the same web hosting server ...
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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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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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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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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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How to create .htaccess to block access to a subdirectory that hosts a separate domain
So I am pretty noob at with creating code in .htaccess, but I know it is what I need to accomplish a pretty simple task. So here is what I want to do.
I have a main domain, (me.com), and I am hosting ...
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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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Redirecting WWW.website.com to website.com
I ranked my site at Nibble.com and i was going through everything, checking for ways to improve my website, and I noticed that www.website.com was classed as a duplicate of website.com. How do I ...
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Redirect subdomain to local PC
I have a home web server which is constantly running. Is it possible to create a subdomain which would redirect traffic to another local PC?
For example, I have one Server and one notebook (with web ...
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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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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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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 ...
