I have a wordpress installed on my website. Now I, intent to install a Forum for my Blog readers. It would be thin and low quality content on the Forum. If I install Forum on a sub-domain, would it have a major negative impact on SEO of my blog and the whole website???
Not really. The only thing to note here is that a subdomain is viewed as an entirely separate and new domain. That is the only real consideration between foro.site.com and site.com/foro Hope that helps. The latter obviously gets picked up first and provides faster juice to the main domain. Nigel
Dear @Nigel Lew Thanks for your prompt response. Someone told me that after these Panda and Penguin updates, the low quality content on sub-domains may also have an impact on SEO And this is what Matt Cutts has to say about this -
While I follow your point here, this has been the case for a quite a while. I guess its how you define low quality but you should not do stuff with poor quality in the first place. N.
That is right... But what about user-satisfaction which comes from Forums... If Digital Point Forum wouldn't have been there - my query wouldnt have been resolved by such helpful people like you... So I'm trying to ensure user-satisfaction without hurting Google....
If you are simply going to throw up something like a support forum its fine regardless. I would perhaps keep it on the same domain though. /forum is fine really. Either way, I don't see how a support forum is low quality anything really. It just may not be that busy at first. There is certainly nothing wrong with being helpful to clients or visitors. Nigel
hmmm.... Thanks for your views... You've been a great help Expecting views from more people on this topic...