(I'm not sure this is the right place for my question, but I haven't found any other location that would look more appreciate than this one.) I'm involved in creating the educational website. The firm that is developing the site is willing to host it on their own servers. They plan to create a sub domain on their server, for example http://client.developer.com where "client" is the site that is being developed and "developer" is the firm that's creating this site. Now, I'm trying to foresee any problems with SEO in such case. There shouldn't be any, don't you think so? Can you think of any other troubles? I will appreciate any supposition or suggestion. One of possible troubles I'm going to prevent by purchasing a domain name and pointing it to this sub domain. Any other ideas why such solution can be not good? Thanks in advance for your contribution.
Not really sure what you want to know. If you are using sub-domain from the developer firm, it seems not very professional likes using your own domain. Otherwise, I dont see any issue. The domain name is not very important when doing SEO
Thanks for your input gate2vn. It isn't professional to use strange not relevant strings as a URL address. Not only for SEO, but for users as well. That's why I told my client to purchase their own domain name. I'm deliberating whether hosting the web site on that firm's server will not hinder analyzing the web site's traffic in the future. Also if their domain has a low PR, can this harm our web site in any way?
If your site has link to a lower PR site, it *might* effect to your PR. However, if that site is growing up fast, and have a back-link to your site, then your site will have benefit
Thanks gate2vn, but that's not what I meant to ask. Let me use the same example as previously. If http://www.developer.com has a low PR or is banned, and they create a sub domain and host on it independent web site, so it looks like http://client.developer.com, is there any chance that developer's low popularity would affect the client's web site?
I might be wrong, but I believe Google consider domain.com and sub.domain.com are different sites. So, for your question, my answer is no if you dont have back-links between them.
right, the lower level of a folder you access, more likely it will have less PR too, even though PR isn't everything and alot of the times does not matter to a functioning business. However, to create the best professional appeal, i would register a domain name for them as they will have the best possible SEO through this method.