I'm about to setup a single page that I anticipate will get heavily linked-to from other sites, and I'm hoping that translates into some nice PR for that page, along with lots of incoming traffic. What is the best way to make sure that some of that PR gets passed over to my main domain? The new page will have a link back to my main page, but I wasn't sure if Google would consider this an external link if it was coming from a subdomain. I'd prefer the subdomain option as it'd look cleaner.. xxxxxxx.maindomain.com vs. www.maindomain.com/xxxxxxx Thanks!
I wouldn't suggest creating a single page of content for a subdomain - it will scream spam even if that is not your intention. Yes, PR will pass from a sub to the main and vice versa.
A subdomain is an entirely new website in Google's eyes. So that link to your main website, would indeed be considered external.
I agree with the above, but to clarify, links don't have to be "external" to pass PR. Every link passes PR, that's one of the reasons why it's important to have a link to your homepage on every page of your site (apart from user experience of course).
No, PR does not pass from subdomain to main domain neither from main domain to subdomain...even PR differs from page to page in the same domain.
Um, does this seem unclear to anybody else? I assume PR means "Page Rank", but does that mean the rank of that page in Google, or does that mean the added-value that an extra link TO a page on your site gives to your page
Actualy, astalavistabd is saying the same I said. PR is base on a single URL, not on a domain. However, I've heard rumors that the toolbar sometimes does a "prediction" of a pages PR if it's not known yet. Thus, pages who don't have PR in the toolbar assigned yet might get like domain's PR minus 1 in the toolbar. These are nothing more than rumors though.
To clear things up: Google regards www.example.com and sub.example.com as completely different sites PR (meaning Google's estimation of the importance of a page based on number and quality of links) will be transferred from sub.example.com to www.example.com only if sub.example.com links to www.example.com I'm planning the same thing for my own website, hoping to create a popular Turkish language portal (http://turkish.turkeyrenting.com) which will in time pass PR onto my main site via a link.
Man. Just make a subdomain with that page, and make the only external link, to you home Index page (your main website). That's it. This way, you'll get the most PR for your page, if PR is what you are after. I would rather create on that subdomain, other pages, thus making it some nice content website. You will only benefit from this. Increased pages, increased content, increased number of IBL's to your main website. And damn. Only non-sense from most posters in this thread.
If that's the case, he'll have to deal with the sandbox more than likely on the subdomain. Is that correct? Would he be better off from a SEO standpoint putting his new page in a new folder on his domain? EX: using domain.com/newdeal instead of newdeal.domain.com Brandon