Hi guys, I have a question about subdomain sitemaps that hopefully i can explain correctly. I am making a site that will be a php backend that will allow users to create their own subdomains for a personal web page. when the subdomain BLAH is created it will be in the directory www.example.com/BLAH. so BLAH.example.com = www.example.com/BLAH. my plan is that on creation of the BLAH.example.com a sitemap.xml containing just the index.php will be created in the root of BLAH.example.com. search engines then will be automatically be pinged that sitemap. NOW, since the subdomain is actually a directory in the main domain(www.example.com), i can also add www.example.com/BLAH to main domains sitemap.xml and ping that too. My question is do you think having 2 sitemaps pointing to the same page will help, hurt, or have no affect on search engine indexing, crawling, ranking. thanks -nick
you might have duplicate content problem if you point both site.com/blah and blah.site.com to same page. subdomains are considered separate websites. i would rather make it like site.com/blah so site.com gets the credit.