Is using subdomains a bad idea? I've tried niche marketing and failed but I'm convinced its a good way to go. Or many people selling stuff have convinced me. LOL I think I went after markets that were a bit too large. But.... I want to keep trying it but would rather not buy domains each time I want to try. I don't see many people going that route. I have a blog, a portal basically. I hesitate to call it a personal blog but that's what it really is. It has several topics, really too broad. I found a niche that adwords pays high on. There are no authority websites. Should be easy to break into the top with. I've got sites with number first page rankings, even in some fairly heavy competition sites. So I'm not an infant but... When I try to setup a page about a certain item, I have not been able to do well there. Smaller site being the key to that. Am I going to waste my time trying to save the $10 buy putting it on a subdomain? I make a dollar a day but I need to get that up to $20 a day. Using both Adsense and then sweeten it with well targeted affiliate links. Am i own the write track and just have not found the right combination? My back links have been a problem I've come to understand, in order to trade them, I need a lot of sites, which I don't have. thanks for the help hope i didn't shoot myself in the foot here by making it too long.
Thanks Geek, someone might be able to better position themselves with on target domain name .... but I've seen people beat me with my own freaking domain name so yeah its not a killer. I should have thought about that. I'm going to go that route for now unless someone gives me a good reason not too.
No, subdomains are actually suggested by Google for example to store pages in a different language, so it will NOT penalize you. I recently wrote a post on where to place your translated pages, and one of the options was using subdirectories. I referenced the Webmaster Central post that "blesses" the use of subdirectories. The post is in http://www.seo-translator.com/multilingual-websites-where-do-i-place-my-translated-pages/ Note however that subdomains are domains by their own right. They will not inherit pagerank from the parent domain, unless you explicitly put a link from the parent domain to the subdomain. On other hand, most people agree that a bad reputation of the subdomain will not necessarily hurt the parent domain. (just in case, if you will be using a subdomain for Black Hat SEO, do not link back). Creating a subdomain is much quicker than buying a domain name, and it starts resolving immediately. (New domains take a couple of hours to resolve). If you have CPanel, then you can create the subdomains yourself. Administration is also easier, as you can manage everything centrally. Keep in mind that YOUR time also costs money. Finally, remember that subdomains are domains by their own right, so you will have to post them also separately to the search engines, perform SEO, etc., as if they were stand-alone domains.
That makes a lot of sense but what are you basing it on. I'm learning more and more that things don't make sense in this business.. I wish i could explain but I can't.