Create subdomains or new domains

I recently was asking a similar question, and then I did a bit more digging around.

Here's a few tips that should make subdomains more attractive.

You can create a mini network using a short and attractive domain name that revolves around a specific niche.

Let us say you want to build around sports, you can pick a domain like:

kingsports(dot)com and then branch out several different micro niches like

soccer-challenge(dot)kingsports(dot)com or
learntoplayhockey(dot)kingsports(dot)com

you can work on this concept untill you build enough traffic on your subdomains and then slowly direct some or all of that traffic to your main domain using 100% organic traffic.

In terms of SEO, subdomains will work great, as long as you stick to your main keyword but try get a domain name that is as short as possible and possibly related.

You can also deviate from this, say you find a cool domain name available like: extremeliving(dot)com or something else that sounds like it has a bit of an edge.

All in all, not a bad practice and there are many blogger pages that get a lot of hits even though they are subdomains by default.

Hope this helped.

If all other things were equal? I'd suspect the redwidgets domain would outrank the red.widgets subdomain. This is not based upon tested fact, but just upon observing while I'm searching.

Now, if you changed the equation, and red.widgets has more quality backlinks, better optimized content, etc... You just flipped the winner.

The better question to me, does redwigets.widgets rank higher, or does red.widgets. I'm betting on the first one.

Great advice. From reading this the consensus seems to be to keep them together if they are related.

In the end I went for different domains as I'm going to be attacking some nice long tail niches, with specific words in the domain name.

I don't think it makes any difference if they are related or not unless you are linking between them it shouldn't make any difference. That's not a fact, just my opinion. Seems to work okay for Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, About, etc ...

In my case,

If the product or site i'm creating and promoting is gonna be something big then I give it a separate domain name but if it's just a squeeze page that i'll be linking from my main blog or site then I just give it a sub domain.