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Have you done subdomain SEO?

by FredJones
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Hi Friends,

While I have done excellent so far in my SEO ventures including a decent number of #1 rankings and a lot more page-1 rankings on Google.com, I have worked on either domainname.com/net (not necessarily keyword.com/net though), domain-name.com/net (again, not necessarily keyword1-keyword2.com/net), domain.com/innerpage.php(html), EZA.com/myarticle or GoArticles.com/myarticle etc.

I have never worked on exactkeyword.mygenericdomain.com.

Any idea on how easy is it to rank for exactkeyword.mygenericdomain.com? You may want to compare with exactkeyword.com/net, exact-keyword.com.net, mygenericdomain.com/exactkeyword.php, mygenericdomain.net/exactkeyword.php, EZA.com/exactkeyword-in-title etc.

In this case, genericdomain.com is a new one - well, a 1-year old domain with no activity so far.

I would really appreciate your inputs. I am not saying that I shall refuse to experiment even if the results are known to be bad, but it does help to expect something within a rough framework and many of you guy are sure to have experience in this one.
#seo #subdomain
  • Profile picture of the author Social-Media-Marketing
    I would rather SEO mygenericdomain.com/exact-keyword-phrase. By doing so you would be adding more pages to your main domain. And any links you build to the exact-keyword-phrase folder/page(s) on your main domain will add to the authority of your main site.

    Sub-domains are treated as totally separate sites. They do NOT inherit their parent domain's helpful ranking factors like domain authority, domain trust, etc. Sub-domains have to start from scratch building their own trust and authority.

    It's almost always a better choice from an SEO perspective to use sub-folders on your main site than to use sub-domains.

    Something else you may want to consider... I've been reading where a LOT of people are seeing over the last several months that Google doesn't seem to be giving nearly as much weight to exact match domains as they used to prior to Mayday.
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    • Profile picture of the author FredJones
      Cool - your answer matches my understanding - that the inner pages is better, than keyword.domain.com is a fresh thing as opposed to domain.com/keyword and hence domain.com/keyword is better.

      Thanks for your inputs.
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      • Profile picture of the author SledgeHammer
        I've done a SEO for my Wordpress.com site and it was successful to some extent although it took about 6 months.
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        • Profile picture of the author Boris_yo
          Originally Posted by SledgeHammer View Post

          I've done a SEO for my Wordpress.com site and it was successful to some extent although it took about 6 months.
          Are you the CEO of WordPress.com?
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          • Profile picture of the author IwebSeo
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            Originally Posted by Boris_yo View Post

            Are you the CEO of WordPress.com?
            He is not telling he is owner of wordpress.com, he is telling his have wordpress blogs and he do seo works on it.
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  • Profile picture of the author afonsokurt
    Subdomains are treated the same way that areas are when it comes to SEO. Because they have unique content. Do not donate all of the subdomains 30 interconnect with the same content .. Search engines do not care or see it as a link.
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