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Discussion in 'Forum Management' started by jimsmith, Jun 11, 2006.

  1. #1
    which is better?
    "what do you mean, better?"
    i don't know, what do you guys do ?
     
    jimsmith, Jun 11, 2006 IP
  2. Yahoo!Guy

    Yahoo!Guy Peon

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    #2
    mysite.com/forum/
     
    Yahoo!Guy, Jun 11, 2006 IP
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    #3
    both.
    Just have the subdomain point to the directory, and SE's can pick and choose as can your patrons.
     
    EdenView, Jun 11, 2006 IP
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    #4
    Assuming that all things (SEO techniques) are equal, forum.mysite.com will perform better (and stylish too).
     
    ainmohd, Jun 12, 2006 IP
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    ForgottenCreature Notable Member

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    #5
    It doesn't really matter.
     
    ForgottenCreature, Jun 12, 2006 IP
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    #6
    why not just have both?
     
  7. jimsmith

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    of course you can have both. But you can only promote 1.
     
    jimsmith, Jun 22, 2006 IP
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    Don't ask me why, but I've always had better success using domain.com/forum in the SE's. Technically forum.domain.com should work better - just for me that it's not.

    Otherwise, not much difference. /forum just adds one more directory deep for the spiders to crawl and pass on PR to.
     
    Golfboards, Jun 26, 2006 IP
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    I have nothing to offer from the SEO perspective but I have found that with certain hosts forum.site.com loads much slower than site.com/forum. It might be a DNS thing. I would advise trying both to see how they perform. Visitors won't put up with a slow loading forum.
     
    jawinn, Jun 28, 2006 IP
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    Yeah, that sounds like a badly configured or just plain slow DNS server for sure. If both virtualhosts are set up in the same Apache, there's really no reason for a subdomain to load any slower than a subdirectory.
     
    Golfboards, Jul 1, 2006 IP
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    #11
    I'm thinking from an SEO standpoint, but wouldnt it be better to pick and promote one or the other?
    I personally use, and promote www.site.com/forum/

    you could set up the subdomain, on the off chance that some users will just try this, since its a common thing for forums. Just don't promote it that way.

    I'd like to hear an official google oppinion on this? anyone got any connections :) ? Maybe Mr Cutts will be reading this?
     
    grobar, Jul 5, 2006 IP
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    Google supposedly treats subdomains as seperate sites and therefore calculates PR seperately. Therefore if you have a good PR on www.site.com and change it to forum.site.com, you'd have to start all over in terms of PR and make sure everyone that links to you updates their links.
     
    Golfboards, Aug 3, 2006 IP
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    Just put it in the main URL, it's better.
     
    czar, Aug 3, 2006 IP