Hello there I need to ask peoples about a thing someway important ... whats best for search engine visibility considering i`m starting a new domain ... evrithing fresh .... 1. creating subdomains for this domain with own content and sitemaps nices and puting links betwen them .... ? example : forum.DOMAINNAME.com / shop.DOMAINNAME.COM / weather.DOMAINNAME.COM 2. creating only folders for same domain name and direting the links betwen them ? example : domainname.com/forum , domainname.com/shop , domainname.com/weather witch of this practice will help the main domain name to get better results?
IN the first Case. Search Engine will consider every domain as individual domain. So the positives of this method get separate detailed statistics for each subdomain subdomain definately carries more weight with regard to backlinks! Also subdomains allow you to put your keywords at the front of the domain, which have more weight and prominence. I also agree that its easier to track a subdomain stats in the Second you can have one statistics page/sitemap/robot etc, that you don't have in sub domain. although there are different thoughts. but i belive that subdomains or folder does'nt matter to search engine. it is for you and your visitors It seems there’s no difference in using a directory to put, say, your blog versus a subdomain. There are definitely preferences among site owners, but in the end it’s about the links. A sort of “My directory can beat your subdomain any day of the week†kind of thing if you have enough link popularity.
Second approach is better, the number of pages in a site is indication of weight in site. Google love big sites than cooperatively smaller sites. Next, you'll be making all links for one domain where in first approach links will be divided among sub domains. I suggest to go with folders option.
Certainly the SEs will consider the sub-domains separate sites, so when you look at indexed pages or backlinks, they will all be for each individual sub-domain rather than the site as a whole. This has the effect of diluting your backlink power as it is spread over different sites (from an SE point of view), I cant think of many benefits that separate each method, but it would seem unless you have a very good reason for using sub-domains, then, for the above reason at least, the folder option would be preferable.
thanks guys lucky me i`m just to start with two domains ( game focused ) I just mouved my forum from subdomain into folder atm loads of errors and stuffs must be fixed but lets hope evrithing will be ok ...
Subdomain is really good to use, AS LONG as you have a lot of content. The problem is that until now the subdomains is handled as different domains (will most likely change in the future). So if you have loads of content, go for subdomains. If you have little content, go for folders.