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Subdomain vs. Subdirectory Debate: Some Post-Panda Information

by localvseo
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I have been doing some research about subdomains vs. subdirectories post-Panda. Everyone has an opinion about this and I know this has been covered a lot on the threads with a lot of back and forth on which is the right way. I came across a blog that does a pretty good job of breaking down the issue and explaining ways to help decide. This is from last year and I haven't found too much written about it since, so unclear if it's still valid, but good points either way for best practices.

Thought this could be useful info for people who are trying to decide which route to go.

(I have no relation to this blog, just found it searching and found it to be the best explanation I could find.)
Subdomain or Subfolder in a Post-Panda Web « «

Be curious to hear what people's experience has been moving from subdirectories to subdomains (or vise-versa)since Panda and what results they have seen.
#debate #information #panda #postpanda #subdirectory #subdirectory or folder #subdomain
  • Profile picture of the author Ninja Web Services
    Couple things here come to mind.

    Matt Cutts of Google said to use a subdomain for the mobile version of your website, and suggested m.yourdomain.com as the proper subdomain name for mobile. This allows you to use robots.txt to exclude regular goog spider and allow mobile goog spider on the subdomain. The takeaway I got from this was it would head off dupe content issues to do it this way. I set this up last month on mine, the domain's too new to have much track record or to give experience with it.

    I've always worked worldwide with my web design business, but lately I've been doing some local and small business marketing, and was considering how best to approach marketing myself with that, whether to use a separate domain for the local business, or to use a subdomain or subfolder of the current site. I, too, am interested in what folks have to say.
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