Hello, I have a real estate website in France that I want to open in Belgium, , marroco, canada,... In order to be well ranked faster, Is it better : -To create a subdmain like this ? http://belgique.alertes-immo.com - Or to buy local domains with no history ? http://www.alertes-immo.be
Go with the country-specific TLD, but make sure the content is written in that country's native language (German for Germany, Swedish for Sweden, and so on). Just make sure that for different countries that speak the same language (like Portuguese for Brazil and Portugal, or English for the UK, Canada, Australia, the USA, and so on), you either pick one TLD and stick with it or take the country-specific TLDs and write different versions of the same type of content (making each one substantially different while still covering the same topic) on each site so you avoid any duplicate content penalties.
Agreed, also consider Matt Cutts at Pub Con said that sub-domains won't be considered a seperate domain anymoe your better off going with the cTLD.
What does this mean that say somebody is being hosted on the site www.example.com with their domain name www.footballforum.example.com will have their site treated the same as all other sites hosted on example.com is sub-domain considered a big disadvantge to recieving high SERP?
Pretty much. Subdomains were originally meant to separate and organize groups of related content relevant to the same Web site (like weather.cnn.com and sports.cnn.com for example), not game the search engines.
i haven't had good luck with sub-domains. In the past Ive had trouble getting them to rank, where the main site would rank fairly well? I have sites in the real estate niche as well but mine are all US sites.
I was thinking to create only subdomains. But I think now that I will make a test : - Belgium : Subdomain. - Luxembourg : new domain. And then I will create the other site based on results.