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Subdomain or /Domain?

by CtrlAltRage
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Hey guys,

I have a blog on a specific URL but I enjoy the URL domain enough that I feel it will be a solid IM URL as well.

I'm planning on creating a subdomain and installing Optimizepress on it. But I'm debating on whether I should create the domain between the following two:

subdomain.my-url.com

or

my-url.com/subdomain

Which one would be more viable?

Thanks in advance!
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  • Profile picture of the author Maecenas23
    I'm always going for /subdomain but from what I read these isn't a big difference. One of my biggest ( if not the biggest ) competitor uses subdomains but if you ask me /subdomain is more user friendly.
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  • Profile picture of the author Rehmat
    sumdomain.yourdomain.com will give your new site a unique identity while yourdomain.com/subdomain looks like a page on your blog for users. In sense of SEO, I don't think that they will make a big difference. Yes subdomain.yourdomain.com would be better if you use keywords in it, as your keywords will appear at the beginning and keywords in URLs still play crucial role..
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    • Profile picture of the author paulgl
      A domain is not a url.

      A subdomain is subdomain.domain.com, not domain.com/url

      A subdomain is really for a complete and separate website in regard to
      your main domain. It will require as much SEO as anywebsite.

      It gets no love from any keyword stuffing as mentioned above.

      If it's just a part of your main site, go with the url page.

      If it's a completely different animal, then just get another domain
      and start a new site.

      Paul
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      • Profile picture of the author LloydMS
        If you're talking about doing this solely to install Optimizepress, for sales pages and your sales funnel, then I don't think it really matters if you use a subdomain (op.main.com) or a directory (www.main.com/op). It's kind of a separate site. I'd just think about it from the user perspective and what makes the most sense for them. It's just not a big deal either way for this purpose.
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  • Profile picture of the author habreza
    As I know domain.com/addurl is more SEO friendly then addurl.domain.com in your site but addurl.domain.com shows more unique name and it's indicate different unique website.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dead Body
    Subdomain is Good option ..
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    • Profile picture of the author CTRTheme
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      Originally Posted by Dead Body View Post

      Subdomain is Good option ..
      No. I'm a SEO-er and subdomain is known as spam sites in google at the end of year 2012. /Domain is better
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      • Profile picture of the author tech84
        Originally Posted by CTRTheme View Post

        No. I'm a SEO-er and subdomain is known as spam sites in google at the end of year 2012. /Domain is better

        uh-oh sitename.blogspot.com and sitename.wordpress.com are now spam sites!




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  • Profile picture of the author SmithMikes
    My point of view is that batter is " my-url.com/subdomain "
    thanks.
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