Seo and Sub Domains

I have a question for you intelligent DPers.


The keyword Delicious, when googled...

del.icio.us comes up 1st

Will google pick up on the subdomain for popular keywords?

Example

If i make a site

pa.intball.com to compete with paintball.com How will google react?

Please talk about your thoughts about making sites that have half the keyword in the subdomain.


EDIT: Also, does google give priority to .com vs .net or .tv ??



Thanks in advance,

Joel

 

google prefers .com domains and subdomains are great for seo. I dont think pa.intball.com will be good but if you do paintball.yoursite.com instead of yoursite.com/paintball you will get better ratings.

 

I'd suggest that was due to in bound anchor text.

<a href="http://del.icio.us">delicious</a>

Code (markup):

 

Ah, thats right, gotcha. So would you say anchor text is king?

 

Anchor text is the major external ranking factor, on page it's the title, the h1, the body text.

For your purposes you could try ranking for the keyword with anchor text, but I would strongly doubt that the search engines would give any extra relevance for the subdomain+domain name keyphrase matching.

 

there is no way that pa.intball.com compete with paintball.com.. del.icous.us has millions of links with the anchor "delicious" and also with "delicous" being arround as titles and keywords in the articles, blogs and websites that link to del.iciou.us, its a rare and unique case.

google is not considering del.iciou.us as being "delicous" but is considering that the sub domain "del" of the website iciou.us is the most relevant result for the keyword "delicious" because of the backlinks and relevancy.

you better choose a domain like CoolPaintball, paintball77, paintballplanet.. if you want the "keyword in domain" boosting SEO effect.. then get quality and related backlinks with "paintball" as anchor text, but if paintball is really your main target you may waste 2 or 3 years of your life trying to rank #1 for this keyword, especially if you start with a new domain.

 

FunkyMario - Thanks, although paintball was just the 1st thing that popped into my mind as an example.

I just wanted to see if subdomains were better than folders and just wanted general info on subdomains

 

If you have a good domain that ranks, then a subdomain is worthwhile as the domain will pass authority onto the subdomain.

You can therefore start a new site (blog or a new niche) on an existing domain and it will start to be indexed and can rank based on the authority passed from the parent domain.

A subdomain like del.icio.us as a naming ploy may work from purely aesthetic and marketing principles, but I really don't think it can do any good as a SEO technique.

There have been other sites that tried the del.icio.us idea for naming, and I can't recall a single one of them now, so it's probably not that much use for marketing either.

 

From me I have good rank on domain but subdomain is not easy to have good rank.
I search all the time I see only .com and .net have good rank on google.

 

i think domain extension is not a criteria for the serp.

it's mostly related with the power of your backlinks