Comments on: Subdomains and subdirectories http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/ neat fun stuff Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:35:07 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Lisa Onizuka http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-410237 Lisa Onizuka Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:13:59 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-410237 Hi Matt, We're redesigning a site that sells tickets to events. The site currently has no PR to speak of. Will it be easier for people looking for the event to find it in Google results if we use <b>venue.domain.com/event</b> or <b>domain.com/venue/event</b>? I want to link to each event from the domain.com and each event will link back too. Will that be considered cross linking if the events are subdomains? Hi Matt, We’re redesigning a site that sells tickets to events. The site currently has no PR to speak of. Will it be easier for people looking for the event to find it in Google results if we use
venue.domain.com/event or domain.com/venue/event? I want to link to each event from the domain.com and each event will link back too. Will that be considered cross linking if the events are subdomains?

]]> By: katrina http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-401967 katrina Sun, 11 Oct 2009 05:35:57 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-401967 On a related topic but maybe slightly unrelated... if i have a blog hosted at mydomain.com/blog , of which the content is completely related to the business hosted at mydomain.com, what are the SEO implications of 1) having betterblogname.com forwarded and masked to point to mydomain.com/blog and 2) any links to the blog from mydomain.com actually sent to betterblogname.com The idea is that we don't want to hide the fact that the blog and the business are related.... it will be obvious, it's just that we want the blog to have an edgy name for promotional purposes, and for that domain to be in the browser address bar. What are the SEO implications of this. We care most about the SEO credit for mydomain.com. I guess the main thing i can think of is that the blog post URL's will behidden... which can't be a good thing. Thanks so much in advance for any insight. katrina On a related topic but maybe slightly unrelated…

if i have a blog hosted at mydomain.com/blog , of which the content is completely related to the business hosted at mydomain.com, what are the SEO implications of

1) having betterblogname.com forwarded and masked to point to mydomain.com/blog and

2) any links to the blog from mydomain.com actually sent to betterblogname.com

The idea is that we don’t want to hide the fact that the blog and the business are related…. it will be obvious, it’s just that we want the blog to have an edgy name for promotional purposes, and for that domain to be in the browser address bar.

What are the SEO implications of this. We care most about the SEO credit for mydomain.com.

I guess the main thing i can think of is that the blog post URL’s will behidden… which can’t be a good thing.

Thanks so much in advance for any insight.

katrina

]]> By: Peter Mathes http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-400904 Peter Mathes Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:34:19 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-400904 Why isn't the good old working for multiple languages on one Domain to rank on google in different lands. Would be great. Why isn’t the good old working for multiple languages on one Domain to rank on google in different lands. Would be great.

]]> By: Sanya Harika http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-392718 Sanya Harika Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:22:38 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-392718 Hi Matt, Thanks for your post..I was in a state of confusion whether to go for sub domains or sub folders. Now I am cleared. I have one small doubt.. I want to build my website www.supergoodmovies.com into different languages. For example, there would be content present in both the languages like in English and also in Tamil Language. So how does search engine crawls the page written in Tamil Language and If I google search tamil movies then how does my tamil language page shows up in Google.. Please clarify this doubt. Hi Matt,

Thanks for your post..I was in a state of confusion whether to go for sub domains or sub folders. Now I am cleared.

I have one small doubt.. I want to build my website http://www.supergoodmovies.com into different languages. For example, there would be content present in both the languages like in English and also in Tamil Language. So how does search engine crawls the page written in Tamil Language and If I google search tamil movies then how does my tamil language page shows up in Google.. Please clarify this doubt.

]]> By: Mario http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-373305 Mario Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:25:38 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-373305 I think the most important is the content and the more relevant pages. If I am from the Philippines and my server is in the US, then I post my contents from the Philippines, then the results will be topped on google.com.ph rather. I have hundreds of experiments about this and surely dynamic or static, subdirectories or subdomain does not matter. The contents matters and the geolocation of the webmaster. I think the most important is the content and the more relevant pages. If I am from the Philippines and my server is in the US, then I post my contents from the Philippines, then the results will be topped on google.com.ph rather. I have hundreds of experiments about this and surely dynamic or static, subdirectories or subdomain does not matter. The contents matters and the geolocation of the webmaster.

]]> By: Jan Scharloo http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-363557 Jan Scharloo Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:53:49 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-363557 As far as I understand from best-seo-optimization-tips.co.uk/ it is NOT google webmaster tools, but the location of the web host servers that determines the ip address of a website. Is there anyone out there who is able to give me more information on this subject? As far as I understand from best-seo-optimization-tips.co.uk/ it is NOT google webmaster tools, but the location of the web host servers that determines the ip address of a website. Is there anyone out there who is able to give me more information on this subject?

]]> By: atommedia http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-360550 atommedia Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:50:49 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-360550 Wow 18 months of discussion here and still many questions about subdomains vs directories, for what it's worth I think the main brand leads first ie www.mysite.com/books as a opposed to www.books.mysite.com which is seen as a completely different site, if I'm not mistaken Wow 18 months of discussion here and still many questions about subdomains vs directories, for what it’s worth I think the main brand leads first ie http://www.mysite.com/books as a opposed to http://www.books.mysite.com which is seen as a completely different site, if I’m not mistaken

]]> By: Troy Hellingman http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-350953 Troy Hellingman Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:41:53 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-350953 Matt, I am impressed with your answers to a wide variety of questions asked by many people. We have launched a new website that will linked various other websites together, each with their own unique domain. Each site will allow shopfront (pop ups) that link directly from any of the sites. We would like to link these shopfronts in Google as sub domains, an example is, we have a site www.brunswickstreet.com.au and would like to promote a business in Google that we link as www.brunswickstreet.com.au/shop/grotto (example), if we list the exact same keywords for this shopfront and other shopfronts on this street, will Google have any problems reading these keywords from your directories? Will there be any confusion with identifying keywords with a PPC or Adwords campaign? Regards Troy Matt, I am impressed with your answers to a wide variety of questions asked by many people.
We have launched a new website that will linked various other websites together, each with their own unique domain. Each site will allow shopfront (pop ups) that link directly from any of the sites.
We would like to link these shopfronts in Google as sub domains, an example is, we have a site http://www.brunswickstreet.com.au and would like to promote a business in Google that we link as http://www.brunswickstreet.com.au/shop/grotto (example), if we list the exact same keywords for this shopfront and other shopfronts on this street, will Google have any problems reading these keywords from your directories? Will there be any confusion with identifying keywords with a PPC or Adwords campaign?

Regards
Troy

]]> By: Dennis Woudt http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-342980 Dennis Woudt Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:11:10 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-342980 For a corporate website we have to develop a multilingual website. My idea is to make 1 web site within the CMS: www.domain.com/en/ (english content) www.domain.com/nl/ (dutch content) www.domain.com/de/ (german content) Is it a safe way to use the following 2 domains and redirects: www.domain.nl (server redirect to www.domain.com/nl/) www.domain.de (server redirect to www.domain.com/de/) Doesn't Google index the same content on 3 domains? A page like www.domain.com/nl/page-1.html will be spidered from both the main .com website and the .nl website. What is the best approach t use multiple domains in 1 web application with multilingual content and how can settings in Webmaster Tools best be applied to a website with 1 xml sitemap? many thanks in advance! Dennis For a corporate website we have to develop a multilingual website.

My idea is to make 1 web site within the CMS:

http://www.domain.com/en/ (english content)
http://www.domain.com/nl/ (dutch content)
http://www.domain.com/de/ (german content)

Is it a safe way to use the following 2 domains and redirects:
http://www.domain.nl (server redirect to http://www.domain.com/nl/)
http://www.domain.de (server redirect to http://www.domain.com/de/)

Doesn’t Google index the same content on 3 domains? A page like http://www.domain.com/nl/page-1.html will be spidered from both the main .com website and the .nl website.

What is the best approach t use multiple domains in 1 web application with multilingual content and how can settings in Webmaster Tools best be applied to a website with 1 xml sitemap?

many thanks in advance!

Dennis

]]> By: scott http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-327385 scott Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:12:45 +0000 http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/#comment-327385 We have a subdirectory [www.exhibitsnw.com/design-search/] This is a list of our displays. We also provide this to our sub distributors but as a subdomain like designsearch.lindsayexhibits.com/gallery/default/portable-perfect] If we look for a specific display number like VK-1657, our distributors come up and NOT our site, which started this display search project. Can someone tell me why we don't come up, but our distributors do, with our products? Thanks, Scott We have a subdirectory [www.exhibitsnw.com/design-search/]
This is a list of our displays.

We also provide this to our sub distributors but as a subdomain like designsearch.lindsayexhibits.com/gallery/default/portable-perfect]

If we look for a specific display number like VK-1657, our distributors come up and NOT our site, which started this display search project.

Can someone tell me why we don’t come up, but our distributors do, with our products?

Thanks,
Scott

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