hello, im pretty new to all this seo stuff, but from what i already read i learned that in order to get good google positions, you need lots of backlinks, preferable from sites with high pagerank too. now my question is, if i have control over one or more domains which hosts sites with high pr (6-7+), and i add a subdomain unter that domain and place a site with a link to my own domain on that subdomain, does that give me a better position than posting to some other site, or doesnt do this any good at all? poschi.
Sorry-- Subdomains are counted by Google as totally separate sites. So links from subdomains have only as much link power as that particular subdomain has links to it.
cafinator, you are right, but linking from your main domain to your subdomain can make a pretty big difference. It seems like it's a lot easier for subdomains on trusted domains have an easier time getting ranked.
Dear Blackbeard If the links from my main domain are to my own subdomains. Will there be any ranking difference between linking to subdomain.mydomain.com and [u... the same weight? -- Thank you in advance
educities, it depends on your goal. If you setup the subdomains they will be counted as separate sites and thus must establish their own PR. However, if you have links from the main domain pointing to the subdomain, the subdomain shouldn't have problems establishing PR. Now, I'd reccomend going the subdomain route just because it gives you more options later on as far as linking to new sites is concerned since each subdomain is it's own "site". Keep this in mind also, Google has made PR largely irrelevant, especially with the last update a few months ago. New sites with almost no links went from PR 0 to PR 5 overnight. If anything PR is just a very basic measure to gague the overall quality of a page, but PR is not the be-all-end-all factor that gets your site ranked well. If anything, anymore PageRank is something Google uses as smoke and mirrors to keep SEO's guessing. PR is nothing more than a metric to calculate the overall amount of links and link quality that is pointing to a site. Nothing more, nothing less. Google doesn't use PR to decide who ranks the highest on a term. Sure, higher PR might help, but PageRank is a metric that measures the number and quality of links, so you have to have links to get PR. Thus all you really need to do is build links. Spend more time actually building links and less time worring about PR. In the end, that's the quickest way to get a site to #1. If all you gun for is PR, you are missing the boat.
Also, if you search for shoes on google you get interesting results. 1. Shoes.com (PR 5) 2. Amazon.com Women's Shoes (PR N/A) 3. Another Amazon.com result (PR N/A) 4. Payless Shoes (PR 7) 5. Zappo's (PR N/A probably PR 5 or 6) 6. Aldo Shoes (PR 0) 7. Van's (PR 5) 8. DC Shoes (PR 6 redirects to PR 5) 9. Journey's (PR 6) 10. Bakers Shoes (PR 5) The point is that the overall trend is that Google isn't strickly a PR based search engine. Sure, a higher PR helps, but PR measures links so all that says is whoever has the most links wins, which is a basic part of all search engines. Just don't forget that Google, Yahoo, and MSN all use other factors to determine the SERPs as well. The URL and the keywords being in title or header tags can have a huge impact on how well a page ranks. The best advice is to stick to the basics: make good content, get links, and keep your site search engine friendly. If you stick to those PR will come to you over time.