Quick SEO question

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by dlatua, Jun 14, 2010.

  1. #1
    Which way is the best in SEO:
    Creating different sites with different domains (ex keyword1.TLD keyword2.TLD keyword3.TLD) or creating different sites using subdomains of one domain. (ex. keyword1.domain.TLD keyword2.domain.TLD keyword3.domain.TLD)?

    Thank you
     
    dlatua, Jun 14, 2010 IP
  2. Codythebest

    Codythebest Notable Member

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    #2
    No negative impact.
    I have several subdomain for one domain and even have better PR on those subdomain than the domain itself. And I'm not using keywords since they are registered names....
     
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  3. longcall911

    longcall911 Peon

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    From an SEO point of view, I don't think it matters whether they are different domains or subdomains unless you create a network of domains using different owner info for each domain, different hosting for each domain, and try not to launch them close together in time. G would then probably see them as completely different sites. If you make sure you get different BLs to each and then exchange some links, you've got a pretty good chance of all sites doing well.

    But, be warned, doing it this way is a huge amount of work and time and money to be sucessful. . . huge.

    My suggestion is to make it all one domain and use subfolders for your subtopics. This is nice and clean, and G will feel you are being honest, and it is easier for visitor, and much easier to maintain.

    domain
    domain/kw1
    domain/kw2
    domain/kw3

    This is tried and true. You'll want to develop great content for the subtopics so that other link back to them. . . deep links are good.

    /*tom*/
     
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  4. Excel 8

    Excel 8 Guest

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    I go for different sub domain, its easy to optimize a website by that and its all linking together.
     
    Excel 8, Jun 14, 2010 IP
  5. Sxperm

    Sxperm Notable Member

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    #5
    If you can afford both time and budget I would recommend you go with the first way - create each website separated. You would get a lot more benefits later instead of just hold all websites in subdomain under one root domain. You would get a lot more traffics, thus using them as a legit link network, a relative link network. :)
     
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  6. invisibler

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    just optimize deep page, it is easy to get better ranking, because the strength of the homepage is also spread to the deep page :)
     
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  7. WishBone

    WishBone Peon

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    If all your sites are very much related, I would suggest to do it in subpages, it is lot easier to manage and edit plus if you have good linking structure, PR juice will flow smoothly to your entire site..
     
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  8. dlatua

    dlatua Notable Member

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    Thank you for your replies.
    i may try both ways and see what the results will be :)
     
    dlatua, Jun 18, 2010 IP
  9. marketingguru101

    marketingguru101 Active Member

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    i think complete domain is more effective.
     
    marketingguru101, Jun 19, 2010 IP
  10. Abhik

    Abhik ..:: The ONE ::..

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    #10
    If the keywords are available, then go with keyword.tld, if not, go with keyword.domain.tld
     
    Abhik, Jun 19, 2010 IP
  11. dlatua

    dlatua Notable Member

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    the keyword is available on .im , but I dont like it it is very weak TLD

    I will try the sudomain and if I will get a good traffic I will buy a decent domain for it ;)
     
    dlatua, Jun 19, 2010 IP
  12. pageupseo

    pageupseo Peon

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    #12
    you should use either new domains or create sites like this way:-

    domain/kw1
    domain/kw2
    domain/kw3
     
    pageupseo, Jun 19, 2010 IP
  13. dlatua

    dlatua Notable Member

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    Well, when a subdomain is created, cPanel cread a folder too
    means if I create kw1.domain.tld, in the same time was created also domain.tld/kw1/

    thank you for your reply
     
    dlatua, Jun 19, 2010 IP
  14. BrianJump

    BrianJump Active Member

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    keyword in domain is better than keyword in subdomain. Google devalued subs a while back..was too easy to manipulate.
     
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    Same thing, what you must take into consideration is content and keywords.
     
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    #16
    May vote more on sites with keywords domains.

    Ked38
     
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  17. val321

    val321 Peon

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    I think you will find people who will sware by one domain, and other for lots of domains. I can understand both opinions.

    Those who build minisites say, so what if one or two won't be successful, I have another 54 to make me money. If I only work on one and it does not succeed then it was all a waste of time.

    THose who build big authority site say, it is easier to work on 1 project and make it big, and use the size of the site to rank well (as well as careful SEO)
     
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  18. cerno

    cerno Well-Known Member

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    #18
    If you want a way to operate each domain as its own website, what I do and recommend, and you also want a reasonable way to manage many domains and track their performance individually, then what you want is a chameleon hub system. It's basically one hub website with one database that can impersonate up to hundreds of other websites. It's not a simple parking system since each domain has it's own complete website with menus and content and theming that can be completely unique or shared with one or more of the other domains on the same hub. You can link them in a variety of ways but with a central hub they are all sharing an ip address.

    I have a couple hubs with a few hundred domains basically parked but with contact forms and collecting traffic data so I can see what domains are hotter than others. Another specialty hub has more than 50 amazon stores, each store is a completely separate domain and website but they share a central hub so it takes only one amazon account and I only have one website to monitor, backup and maintain.

    If you have more than twenty domains to deal with it is worth investing in a nice hub system since you will save so much time compared to dealing with twenty individual databases. I just spin off the hottest domains into separate projects after I see them outperform the others on their hub, it's easy to compare statistics on the various domains if you set up the hub properly.
     
    cerno, Jun 20, 2010 IP