forums.myurl.com or myurl.com/forums/ ?

Hello,

Probably just a preference but any idea on which one to use over the other format when setting up a new forum?

Thanks

 

Look in your address bar

 

Good one tops

 

I just recently switched from subdomain.domain.cmo to domain.com/folder as my main site had fewer pages and less content than the forums. Now all content and pages are now in domain.com and it is now seen as a much larger site by big G.
just a thought.

 

Yeah, I was thinking the same about big G.

 

I did the switch a month ago after the forums were up for about a year. Confused the heck out of Google, but no drop in rankings (at least not yet)..I figure google will understand what happened in a month or two.

 

But if you get bad spam/links/bad language, in your forums and Google finds it before you do, it could reflect badly on the rest of the site.

 

How about for a forum only site, for now atleast?

 

Just use the top domain if the 'for now' is going to take a few years.

 

agree with the bad links...but im pretty diligent with forum spam. Speaking of which, i have geen getting a heck of a lot from mother Russia

If I had to redo, I would not go with a subdomain from the get go.

 

thanks guys. when owners get a dedicated forum server, is that when they change to the subdomain?

 

It doesn't really matter.