is a link from whatever.mydomian.com seen differently by the SEs than mydomain.com/whatever ?

what i'm trying to find out is if it's worth using subdomians on my site?

;p

Originally Posted by purk

is a link from whatever.mydomian.com seen differently by the SEs than mydomain.com/whatever ?

what i'm trying to find out is if it's worth using subdomians on my site?

;p

A sub-domain link to your home page usually will count as a link. Sub-domain links are ranked higher than sub-pages links.

It seems to me that sub folders (ex: yourdomain/folder/) is better than subdomains, at least when it comes to Googles PR. I have a subdomain that I no longer use because it was being treated as another domain altogether by Google.

I usually try to use sub directories rather than subdomains.
It concentrates PR and content on one site rather than dilluting them between two.

a link is a link is a link,

but quite honestly if you are concerned about such minute details and you are already looking at the wrong things.

thanks for the feedback.

chris: care to suggest another aspect of seo i should address before something so minute?
i was trying to be thorough but i see your point.

purk build a good site with quality content which will build relevant links naturally to your site. Make sure to write unique titles and descriptions for your pages. Build a site that search engines can easily spider.

More and more search engine marketing is becoming like offline marketing. Yeah there are still tricks out there to manipulate the algorithms, but search engines are getting better daily and finding and banning these sites.

It really is about having a quality site and getting relelvant backlinks. The link building takes time. For my own site I've been submitting periodically to directories though I don't do this a lot. Maybe a 20 links a month when I'm not doing anything else. I don't jump at every link exhange or any of them really.

I'd rather spend my time creating what I hope is quality content for my site. I've started a blog and added some articles to my site. I will be submitting my articles to article directories, though I would prefer to just get them included on a quality site.

As webmasters I know we all want to do everything we can and leave no detail unnoticed as far as seo is concerned, but this isn't really necessary as most of those details aren't going to have a mjor impact.

I did neglect to mention one thing. Define your keywords for each page. Maybe 2-3 keyword phrases per page and then make sure your content, title, description for the page is about those keywords.

thanks vangogh, you've given me something to think about

Originally Posted by stOx

I usually try to use sub directories rather than subdomains.
It concentrates PR and content on one site rather than dilluting them between two.

So do I st0x.