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Google Issues about subdomains

by rkcc4
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Has anyone got any thoughts or issues about Sub Domains, e.g. www.mydomain.com and www.blog.mydomain.com or www.forum.mydomain.com.

Does Google see them as ONE domain even though they will have different DNS records and are in effect different sites.

Can I link the two in a sitemap to avoid issues and put links from each site back and forth to ameliorate this?

Will the parent domain get the same authority?

Any other know issues?

I know I can install to folders of the same site but permissions are better handled by creating subdomains.
#google #issues #subdomains
  • Profile picture of the author Andrew Barton
    Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that Google still treats sub-domains as separate domains.

    I think that cross linking your sitemaps is possible, but I am not sure if it is needed (depending on why you are using sub-domains. As long as you interlink the homepage of each sub-domain and they each have their own sitemap you should be fine.
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    • Profile picture of the author Doug Wakefield
      They are treated separately.
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    • Profile picture of the author rkcc4
      Originally Posted by Andrew Barton View Post

      Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that Google still treats sub-domains as separate domains.

      I think that cross linking your sitemaps is possible, but I am not sure if it is needed (depending on why you are using sub-domains. As long as you interlink the homepage of each sub-domain and they each have their own sitemap you should be fine.
      Thanks for the reply, it is the common problem of a site designed for a functional purpose with drab SEO unfriendly software.

      The functionality is critical to the core business and can't risk damage to it. So I figured demote it to a sub domain, stick in a wordpress with a lot of SEO friendly pages reflecting what people are actually searching for with a link to the page of the functional system that takes the orders.

      Links back to your own site are a good thing, my concern was losing Google status, but it is pretty awful anyway, very heavy competition, hence the need for wordpress, so site may be written from marketing perspective.

      I have this a lot with clients.
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