Why would you webpage.website.com

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I have seen people using the following url's for there web pages, store, and blogs:
webpage.website.com. Is there an advantage to doing this and if so how is it done?

Jim Klein
Professional Sales Training, Sales Coaching
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  • This is a subdomain, and is setup at the web server in the control panel (cPanel, Plesk, Etc)

    Some of the advantages to this are, it is easier to use, for example, name.domain.com than it is to use domain.com/catalog/name.

    Sometimes a subdomain is used to point to a folder on a server, such as 'domain.com/catalog/dogcare/' may be seen at dogs.domain.com while
    'domain.com/catalog/forums/petlovers/' could be 'petforum.comain.com'

    In theory the advantage is you can always control what your subdomain is, but depending on the software you are using, you may not be able to control what your path to the page is.

    Scott Burton
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    • On the other side of that, search engines will view your subdomain as a separate domain so any Bronie points you have gained with yoru main site, will not do you any good if you publish a subdomain.

      For clarity in print, it would be wise to do as Scott suggested, but for SEO, I would use the subdirectory/silo approach and concentrate on promoting one site instead of many.

      Ted
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