Comments on: Should you use subdomains for your e-business website?

By: Julius

Julius — Sun, 02 May 2010 09:18:36 +0000

I particularly like your point about interlinking and how it helps sub pages increase to a PR 4. I think this is a small yet powerful strong point of subdomains.

By: book rentals

book rentals — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:08:46 +0000

this is still a question for me, subdomains are sometimes treated as separate domains for PR purposes, but you can also use link juice to update the pr of the subdomains.

still trying to figure it out

By: Amílcar

Amílcar — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:27:46 +0000

Yaro,

Nowadays, is your opinion on this matter any different? If so, can you point me to an article that reflects what do you think about it?

Thanks.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 01:56:55 +0000

Another possible benefit of using subdomains - and I can't say this with any confidence besides in theory speculation, but I *think* it should work - is that you can keep your link directory on one site while the incoming links point to your subdomains. That way the outgoing links leave one site and the incoming links go to another, much like what I talked about in this article.

By: Yaro

Yaro — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:56:20 +0000

Slightly concerned, but not worried I would say best sums it up Matt. While there probably is some duplicate content most of my pages have changed over the years so duplication would be miminal.

I’m not using a java redirect, it’s just a meta-refresh which is like a meta-tag (I don’t think that is java based).

The alternative is to delete all the old content which means that if anyone came across an old page they would get 404 errors and then hopefully head to the main site anyway since my 404 custom page provides a simple site map.

I’d say by now most of my old content is not highly indexed in Google anyway since none of my current pages point to it.

By: Plusone Marketing

Plusone Marketing — Mon, 20 Jun 2005 08:21:34 +0000

If original content remains, are you worried about being penalised by Google for duplicate content, as I assume you are using a java redirect?

By: Yaro

Yaro — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 12:16:08 +0000

The site at http://www.betteredit.com remained even though the “live” site was now under student.betteredit.com and business.betteredit.com. All visitors were directed to the subdomains.

The content available for example at http://www.betteredit.com/services.shtml and all the files under the main www site are still there, but if anyone ever comes to those pages they are redirected to http://www.betteredit.com where they will have to choose to enter a subdomain.

My old content was not deleted and remained online even though I didn’t consider it “active”.

I hope that clarifies things?

Yaro

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 06:34:46 +0000

Interested in this”When I divided my site into sub-domains I kept all the main pages from the directories on the server even though I had migrated the content on to the sub-domains and my navigation system no longer pointed to the older pages. ”

Interested to find out what you mean by keeping all the pages from the subdirectories on the server.