Is a link from a sub domain worth anything to my main domain ie directory.visitdevonandcornwall.com linking site wide to visitdevonancornwall.com ?
Actually everything that looks like "something.domain.com" is a sub-domain, even "www.domain.com" is a sub-domain. The main domain is looks something like "domain.com" So all should have similiar weightage. ( corect me if I am wrong though )
ya .. i thinking the same way too ... it's consider a different site .. BUT the c class ip is the same .. and there's rumours that links from the same c class will contribute less weight .. they do contribute as BL
So - there would be some merrit in a focused (relavitve terms) directory from a sub domain for linking potential as well as a tool for my visitors!!
While that C class thing may be true to a degree if you have 50 sites of the same subject pointing at each other, for the average honest webmaster, it's not necessary is what I was told. It's another way to sell stuff to those that don't know yet IMO after hearing that. SEO and Honest do not seem to come in the same sentence too often in my research. DIY
That's a great rumor. Sites on the same IP block will be penalized. Folks that never met and are in a datacenter with perhaps a million other customers, perhaps even on the same server, but don't even know each other exist and they may do business together on the WWW so let's punish them in the serps. LMAO, the only thing that rumor does is sell IP's and hosting. Nice rumor.
That's all I'm saying. I'm sure there are many fair priced agents to service those that need help and provide honest information that benefits the customer and not themselves. But rumors like the above will eliminate anyone that subscribes to them from my honest list.
galacnet: no something.domain.com isn't necessarily a subdomain of domain.com - neither is www.domain.com - they are normally hosts from the domain.com domain. It is possible for them to be setup as complete subdomains, but it's not normal. If the url was www.subomain.domain.com, then that would be a host on the subdomain. www.domain.com is a host (A or CNAME) record in the domain.com dns zone files. A name doesn't become a subdomain until it has it's own dns zone.
In my experience multiple links from the same ip c-class seem to be worth less There are some hotel affilate people who will swap links on 100+ domains at one time, never seem to do anywhere never as much as 100 links from random websites wasn't there some patent or something that everyone was talking about
Domain Name Server. I'ts a computer that your computer connects to to translate a domain name (x.com) to an IP address (6.70.67.112). The IP is needed to access the remote server.
Actually it would be how you set it on the DNS server and on the hosting server. I have had people request to me that they want to place a "www" infront of their subdomain "example.domain.com" just so it would look as if its a fully qualified domain. Others thought that everything must begin with a "www" But technically, "domain.com" is a Domain, "example.domain.com" is a sub-domain, and "www.example.domain.com" is just another version of a sub-domain. But generally it s norm to refer the "www.domain.com" site was the main site because it was an introduced standard starting sub-domain. Spiders however, don't really bother about this.