question about subdomain + mydomain

Hi there, I planned to launch new real estate article directory under sub-domain.

my current domain

http://www.estateround.com

I planned to launch in

http://real.estateround.com

My question is
1. Would it help me in seo terms?
2. Would it be sanboxed?
3. Is this subdomain is good? Or should I have to use article.estateround.com instead.

Thank you for your suggestion.

Regards,
Sxperm

 

I would recomend against using a subdomain at all...Google doesnt like 'em.

 

if your target is "real estate", yes

 

That is not true at all. Google uses subdomains ie adsense.google.com so Im pretty sure it likes them.

 

Yes, my target audience is "Real estate", my main site is "Real estate Directory"

cheers,
Sxperm

 

Google likes subdomains plenty. Not sure why anyone would say anything to the contrary. The basic difference is that Google will see a subdomain as a separate site while placing the same content/pages in a sub-directory would merely add content to the main site. My question is this, your site is a real estate directory already is it not? So, what is the goal here?

 

I aimed to increase real estate content with article directory. Is it a good or bad idea? Feel free to give me suggestion.

Cheers,
Sxperm

 

I agree with SEOinAZ, Google would be crazy to undermine the value of subdomains only to go and use them excessively themselves.

 

I think you could be just as successful adding an article directory to a sub page of your site instead of a subdomain but do whatever you feel is best. Subdomains are seen as seperate websites though so keep that in mind.

 

We have a discussion forums and we are just not sure whether to keep our forums as
subfolder in our domain or

forums.ourdomain.com

we see that forums at digitalpoint is kept as forums.digitalpoint.com and both the forums are having PR of 7.

Can you guys help us?

 

putting the sub domain directory will allow you to optimize seperatly the sub domain for diffrent term. it does work great for example domains apartment.com [term apartment] - sub; rent.apartment.com [term: rent apartment]. that does work great.

 

1. The "real.estate ...." sub-domain is a good name if you are targetting "real estate".
2. Google doesn't dislike sub-domains
3. You can pass some of your existing PR from your site to the directory by linking to it from your existing pages just like you would if it were www.domain.com/real for example. So, www.domain.com/real and real.domain.com are pretty much the same in that regard. But, go for the sub-domain imo.