So in my research I have run across subdomains. This is something I am interested in implementing as my site might become a bit massive. From an seo standpoint i believe each sub domain has to be marketed as a seperate site. My question is this if I have say food.com and subdomains of pasta.food.com and chocolate.food.com what is the issue of interlinking ? Would i not be able to provide a link from the main food.com page to my pasta.food.com ? (I believe i read something like that) I have another question also. If subdomains are not the way to go from a seo point of view if I do decide to go with food.com/pasta is it ok for me to launch my site focusing on pasta and continue to add on to the main food.com site along with other sections? The site is kind of big to be totally finished for launch
I'm willing to debate this issue. As an end user have have repeatedly seen... golftips.sitesell.com (for example) topfive.sitesell.com YetAnotherPageRankingVeryHigh.sitesell.com If their main offer was $80 intead of $350 I would have bought it years ago. Anyone who says subdomains do not gain big time from the main domain's popularity, may have trouble convincing me. Just my 2cents.
Do not use subdomains as it will bring down your site popularity. Instead of it make dir or .html pages on different topics or better use some CMS out of it.
There's no problem with using sub domains at all. One or my subdomains actually rank better than my main domain
My strong opinion was clearly labeled as 'end user', there is still plenty of room for SEO experts to clear things up. Thanks.
Subdomains are indeed much better depending on what you're doing. Lets say you want a forum for your website so you do a website.com/forum and down the road some spammer spams your directory, you don't pay attention and....wham your deindexed. But if you had done forum.website.com the subdomain is deindexed until you fix it, but your main site is intact. Search engines see as a seperate domain, and as far as SERPS, security, etc. should be considered for a blog addon, forums, directory, etc. But certainly not for categories/ main content. IMHO.
subdomains work like charms. I use subdomains to tie up different parts of a huge site..I treat them as individual sites in a big niche...and most traffic to these are direct
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't forums.digitalpoint.com much more popular than www.digitalpoint.com?
My advice is don't bother. I went crazy using sub-domains in the past, when it mattered more. The trouble is, you have to build links to every sub-domain individually. You're better off building all your links into one main site.