Comments on: An URL by any other name would still work like an URL, part 1: subdomains

By: aby

aby — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:49:29 +0000

You can use subdomain as part of main topic which use on main domain. For instance main talk about general health and sub talk about women health

By: Gainesville Apartments

Gainesville Apartments — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:25:18 +0000

Wow this is helpful! We've been considering adding subdomains to our site--- the problem is that we created a subdirectories for each of our apartment complexes, and the URLS look messy. I've been wondering how the switch would effect rankings. Do you think that subdomains with keywords are more powerful than subdirectories with keywords? This would effect how we name the subdirectory. And what about all of those links that point to the original files in the subcategories??

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By: milo

milo — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:27:34 +0000

Keywords in the domain name are very critical in my opinion and help with your overall SEO. SubDomains are seen as a seperate entity with google and don't hold as much weight as having your main keyword as the domain.

By: Domains at Retail

Domains at Retail — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:57:34 +0000

Subdomains are neater, but Google for SEO treats them as separate domains in the listing and you have to gather ranking for it, whcih is a little more difficult. I can see subdomains working for offline marketing, such as print marketing. For example, marketing.blog.edu is easier for someone reading off a printed flyer than blog.edu/dir/marketing/. It just looks cleaner, but for SEO organic results, both will do fine.

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:37:30 +0000

Personally, I like sub-domains. They do make things look tidier. The real challenge comes when you want to make them "stick" — waynesmallman.blahblahtech.com/profile/resume Which often requires some .htaccess trickery to make that happen...

By: Heidi COol

Heidi COol — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:50:07 +0000

Tara, You're right, the arrangement doesn't seem to be relevant. While keywords in the domain are helpful, I don't think they're as critical as your content and other mktg. strategies. As long as the words are logical I think you're on track. I'll write more about that in another article.

By: Tara Lyons

Tara Lyons — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:27:21 +0000

The argument out there is still that having a domain like belleville.taralyons.com at least contains more keywords and that Google puts prominence or importance on words that come earlier.
But what you're saying is that the arrangement of the keywords may not be relevant, that http://www.taralyons.ca/belleville holds as much weight.
A link like this Belleville Real Estate obviously helps with determining relevance, but does it weigh more if the domain matched in keywords?

By: Heidi Cool

Heidi Cool — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:42:43 +0000

I think you're right Tom. The research is tricky too. I'm finding a lot of material discussing urls and SEO, but not as much related to other mktg strategies such as print and e-mail. But I'll keep digging!

By: TomG

TomG — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:52:57 +0000

I can see this topic supporting about 5 posts and still not answer all the questions Very good start Heidi!