Browsing through John Mu's links, I was reminded about quite a good generic domain which is just parked atm. It's thematically linked to all our other sites, so could become a subdomain of any of them as I don't plan to make it more than 2 or 3 pages.
My questions are:
Are there serious downsides to being a subdomain rather than standalone (think I can guess the answer)
If I do make it a subdomain does it make any difference whether I put it on a PR4 or 5, or would site traffic and search engine results of the main site be more of an influence on its visibility?
Subdomains, for all intensive purposes, are considered separate sites - that includes for PR purposes. They don't seem to inherit much of anything (other than words in the domain name) from the parent domain.
Any serious downsides of using subdomains? No - unless your model is for people to access you predominantly by remembering your url (like youtube, google or yahoo) in which case it's best to go with the shorter parent domain. Subdomains also (in my experience) are often much harder to get indexed - they need more incoming links than the domain name from which they are formed before the threshold is reached at which Google considers them worthy of being indexed. This only seems to be a problem if your domain name is relatively new, and I think it was probably a response to the problem of 'subdomain spamming' which reared its ugly head a few years back (point in note - wordpress.org).
re: visibility, PR4, PR5 - subdomains seem to be seen as seperate sites. Thus the biggest influence is going to be their own incoming links. Words in the domain name are also important, so if I had two sites to choose from, one called all-about-oranges.com and one all- about-apples.com, and my proposed site was to be about apples, I'd choose the latter to spawn my subdomain from.
> Browsing through John Mu's links, I was reminded about quite a good > generic domain which is just parked atm. It's thematically linked to > all our other sites, so could become a subdomain of any of them as I > don't plan to make it more than 2 or 3 pages.
> My questions are:
> Are there serious downsides to being a subdomain rather than > standalone (think I can guess the answer)
> If I do make it a subdomain does it make any difference whether I put > it on a PR4 or 5, or would site traffic and search engine results of > the main site be more of an influence on its visibility?
> Subdomains, for all intensive purposes, are considered separate sites > - that includes for PR purposes. They don't seem to inherit much of > anything (other than words in the domain name) from the parent domain.
> Any serious downsides of using subdomains? No - unless your model is > for people to access you predominantly by remembering your url (like > youtube, google or yahoo) in which case it's best to go with the > shorter parent domain. Subdomains also (in my experience) are often > much harder to get indexed - they need more incoming links than the > domain name from which they are formed before the threshold is reached > at which Google considers them worthy of being indexed. This only > seems to be a problem if your domain name is relatively new, and I > think it was probably a response to the problem of 'subdomain > spamming' which reared its ugly head a few years back (point in note - > wordpress.org).
> re: visibility, PR4, PR5 - subdomains seem to be seen as seperate > sites. Thus the biggest influence is going to be their own incoming > links. Words in the domain name are also important, so if I had two > sites to choose from, one called all-about-oranges.com and one all- > about-apples.com, and my proposed site was to be about apples, I'd > choose the latter to spawn my subdomain from.
> Cheers,
> doc
> On Aug 26, 9:21 pm, beckysharpe wrote:
> > Browsing through John Mu's links, I was reminded about quite a good > > generic domain which is just parked atm. It's thematically linked to > > all our other sites, so could become a subdomain of any of them as I > > don't plan to make it more than 2 or 3 pages.
> > My questions are:
> > Are there serious downsides to being a subdomain rather than > > standalone (think I can guess the answer)
> > If I do make it a subdomain does it make any difference whether I put > > it on a PR4 or 5, or would site traffic and search engine results of > > the main site be more of an influence on its visibility?
> Thanks doc. Yes, the model is for it to be found by its url, so I'll > show it I care by buying it its own space ;-)
> Appreciate your help.
> Becky
> On Aug 26, 12:34 pm, dockarl wrote:
> > HI Becky!
> > Subdomains, for all intensive purposes, are considered separate sites > > - that includes for PR purposes. They don't seem to inherit much of > > anything (other than words in the domain name) from the parent domain.
> > Any serious downsides of using subdomains? No - unless your model is > > for people to access you predominantly by remembering your url (like > > youtube, google or yahoo) in which case it's best to go with the > > shorter parent domain. Subdomains also (in my experience) are often > > much harder to get indexed - they need more incoming links than the > > domain name from which they are formed before the threshold is reached > > at which Google considers them worthy of being indexed. This only > > seems to be a problem if your domain name is relatively new, and I > > think it was probably a response to the problem of 'subdomain > > spamming' which reared its ugly head a few years back (point in note - > > wordpress.org).
> > re: visibility, PR4, PR5 - subdomains seem to be seen as seperate > > sites. Thus the biggest influence is going to be their own incoming > > links. Words in the domain name are also important, so if I had two > > sites to choose from, one called all-about-oranges.com and one all- > > about-apples.com, and my proposed site was to be about apples, I'd > > choose the latter to spawn my subdomain from.
> > Cheers,
> > doc
> > On Aug 26, 9:21 pm, beckysharpe wrote:
> > > Browsing through John Mu's links, I was reminded about quite a good > > > generic domain which is just parked atm. It's thematically linked to > > > all our other sites, so could become a subdomain of any of them as I > > > don't plan to make it more than 2 or 3 pages.
> > > My questions are:
> > > Are there serious downsides to being a subdomain rather than > > > standalone (think I can guess the answer)
> > > If I do make it a subdomain does it make any difference whether I put > > > it on a PR4 or 5, or would site traffic and search engine results of > > > the main site be more of an influence on its visibility?
