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Subdirectories vs subdomains!

by SavvyTeenager
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Hi all

Just wanted to know that if you build a page and a subdomain related to a town. Does Google penalise you for having a subdirectory (birmingham) for example, and a subdomain with the town name in the url for example "www.birmingham.mybusiness.com".

Because my main domain targets the UK, but I also want to geo locate certain towns and cities. This is my subdomains purpose, Also we are franchising to people in these areas so it makes cms.

But the point is, If i have page on the main domain and a subdomain targeting the same town (these two will have unique content and targeting different keywords btw) will I get penalised by google?

Many thanks to anyone help answer!
#subdirectories #subdomains
  • Profile picture of the author gprialde
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    Google will not penalized you for having the subdomain, but I would say go for sub-directories. Why? Because of PR or DA passing. Subdomains are classified as another space or domain... whereas subdirectories are just part or in-section.
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    • Profile picture of the author SavvyTeenager
      Originally Posted by gprialde View Post

      Google will not penalized you for having the subdomain, but I would say go for sub-directories. Why? Because of PR or DA passing. Subdomains are classified as another space or domain... whereas subdirectories are just part or in-section.
      Hi I need the subdomains, because my business model is based around franchising certain areas of the uk. Subdomains allow me to give the franchisee their own cms platform etc.

      But I were to point to the subdomain site from the sub-driectory, will that still pass link juice?
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