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Can subdomain value benefit the main domain?

by Paul Buckley
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I know just enough about SEO to be dangerous. I know that a folder on a domain adds value to the domain and that a subdomain can be benefitted by the value of the primary domain. What I'm not sure of is whether a primary domain can benefit from a valuable subdomain.
#benefit #domain #main #subdomain
  • Profile picture of the author blithfield
    Whether say

    domain.com

    can benefit from

    sub.domain.com

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    Yeah of course it can. A lot depends on it though.

    Are you linking to domain.com from sub.domain? If so, has sub.domain.com got good content and links?

    I might be wrong, and I never look into things as trivial as this, but I don't think sub domains naturally pass or gain 'trust' to the primary domain as well as sub folders and pages. They are treated as more of a seperate entity, like a seperate domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author Paul Buckley
    Thank you. That makes perfect sense to me and is exactly the type of response I was looking for.

    That subdomains are treated as a separate entity by the SEs from the main domain I knew but it seemed to me that there should be a way to 'share the wealth' between them. I don't know why the cross-linking strategy didn't immediately occur to me. It's so obvious.

    The project I'm involved in is building a subdomain property with good intrinsic value but to use it to enhance the value of the main property which already has good value of its own.
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