With our without sub-domains?!

If I just make a new page, and will put it in 3 separated places


1. seo.mysite.com
2. seo.mysite.com/seo.php
3. mysite.com/seo.php


and will give it a link from mysite.com
Wich of those 3 page will rank higher in the Search Engines?! I think that is more good for a website to stay "compact" without sub-domains!?

 

That is what I have heard too. However, some big sites like about.com use alot of subdomains. But they are very big...

Since big is better I would expand the main domain with subdirectories instead.

 

And you need to consider the duplicate content penalty incurred by putting the same content in different places.

 

Every page you create must be vastly different, regardless of where it is.

I support the myth that an index page or home page is harder to rank than an internal page. But there is no evidence to support this theory: so I vote for 3. mysite.com/seo.php

Don't be too fussed with internal links, while you should optimize them, they count for say one one thousandth of what a link from another site does. Link from other sites are more credible as they are less so something you can manufacture easily yourself.

 

anybody else?!

 

Well it hardly matters... but when a site is new... then subdomains help them to come out of the sandbox in a manner that.. they provide a good source of information to the robots... by showing that this site is having various subdomains and a lot of information...

No problem for the old sites... optimize them good and they will show good...

Manish

 

Really? Where have you heard that having subdomains will shorten the duration of time a site is in the sandbox?

 

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=3031
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/32840.htm

Take a look

 

ime (1) will rank better.

 

I think better to keep it on the same domain
cause as I see in the free hosting services or blog host services , all websites are on different subdomains , some of them hi PR others low PR . Then search engines treats them as different websites even if they are on the same domain .

 

Thanks for that, maldives. Certainly an interesting read.

 

I like to use sub-domains, O think it may even help with the sandbox as well