Hi, I have a domain and when you access it, it redirects to forum.domain.com i.e. a subdomain. I have also posted several articles different to receive backlinks but then I posted www.domain.com. How will the ranking and search engine results be affected by this when all the activity is happening on forum.domain.com but the backlinks is being sent to www.domain.com i.e. not the subdomain (but after a redirect)? Best regards, Tomas
Google treats subdomains as separate domains. If it is a 301 redirect that sends the visitors from www.domain.com to forum.domain.com you should be okay.
Thank you for your answer. I think it is an 301 direct as it is made on the server side (i.e. at the hosting company) but I will verify that. Thanks again!
As Narrator correctly points out, a subdomain is treated as if it were a separate domain. If you have a 301 redirect it should not affect you much. However, it's not exactly good practice to build links to a site that is redirected. Try to link to the forums, not to the main site, unless you intend to use the main domain name later for some other purpose.
Google treats subdomains as separate domain. Through 301 redirect you can redirect from old domain to newer domain. By uploading 301 redirect you can move from old url's of website to newer ones.and google than familiar with that.