forum.site.com vs. site.com/forum

Discussion in 'Forum Management' started by zippy1nut, Feb 20, 2008.

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    For Serps which is better forum.site.com or site.com/forum?

    Also I know how to setup forum like this --> site.com/forum, but how do you setup like this --> forum.site.com
     
    zippy1nut, Feb 20, 2008 IP
  2. BlueEew

    BlueEew Well-Known Member

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    I think having a subdomain (forums.domain.com) would make it react like a differn't website not connected to domain.com. I am not sure on that.

    Anyways, I would say domain.com/forums/ is the best way. :)
     
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  3. gate2vn

    gate2vn Peon

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    forums.domain.com will be considred as another domain, so saying in SEO part, forums.domain.com is the better way.
    For creating forums.domain.com, check in your hosting control panel, where to create subdomain
     
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  4. RectangleMan

    RectangleMan Notable Member

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    Ugh...explain how for the sake of a new domain is that better for SEO? It actually splits up your SERP penetration. I see no reason to use subdomains unless you are splitting up the domains on seperate servers. I am sure the www version of DP runs differently than the forums section.

    Subdomains are acceptable for a variety of reasons but SEO isn't exactly one of them.
     
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  5. gate2vn

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    When saying about SEO, one reason for using subdomain is Link Weight.
    - domain.com/forums is considered as internal link
    - forums.domain.com is considered as external link
    Internal links do not carry much weight.

    When saying about SERP, if you search http://www.google.com/search?q=domain, I believe Google doesn't return many listings if it's sub-folder (1 or 2 only). However, in case of sub-domains, cause each sub-domain will be considered as external domain, there are more listings per SERP. Compare
    - http://www.google.com/search?q=searchenginewatch: 7 listings in the first page because of sub-domains usage
    - http://www.google.com/search?q=godaddy: 2 listings in the first page

    Please correct me if I am wrong
     
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    gate2vn, that is a very interesting example.
    Thank you very much!
     
    andyba, Feb 23, 2008 IP
  7. jagannath_4all

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    the link weight that gate2vn is talking about holds good only when forums.domain.com and domain.com resides on different ips. but if you have both the case on a single ip there is no link weight whatsoever.

    for example,

    http://forums.digitalpoint.com has ip 216.9.35.60

    while http://www.digitalpoint.com has ip 216.9.35.56


    If you site is based only on the forum or you have only one ip or consequent ips its better to have domain.com/forum




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    jagannath_4all, Feb 24, 2008 IP