I disagree wholeheartedly, and with some digging through the SEO forums and webmaster world, there's plenty of documented instances of this exact setup versus TLD setups.
Here's one person's experience: http://www.jonwaraas.com/sub-domains-for-seo-is-no-good/ WebMasterWorld.coom has a bunch more. Here's a post (unfortunately it's from 2007 - when crap really started to hit the fan because of SPAM sub's) from a Google guy about their changes in algorythms regarding subdomains: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories It'll be up to you all to draw your own conclusions faced with the research and examples presented. In my personal experience, handling blogs and subdomains for the last 7 years, doing Adsense work, SEO work and traffic metrics, a new TLD has always been far more affective, and LONG STANDING than a subdomain. Wasn't the case in 2004-2005 where I had THOUSANDS of subdomains getting successful search engine love, but then Google changes their ways, and they all dropped. And no - there was no shenanigans going on. All organically handled and naturally grown sites. Subdomains (or hosts really) were beneficial for several reasons: didn't have to spend money registering and hosting a separate site, it could share cookies with the TLD, it kept branding "clear", it could share files. Etc. As far as taking quite some time? Define what you think is "some time". You can have several thousand visitors to a blog in the space of 30-60 days done right. Organically. Nothing fancy or underhanded. Of course - everyone's mileage will vary. I only give you my personal everyday experience, and there's 1000's of ways to do this thing called the world wide web. :) On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Justin Scott <jscott-li...@gravityfree.com>wrote: > > > I am curious, if search engines see a sub-domain as a > > sparate domain, what benefit is there of using this > > method over just using a sub-domain? > > None. It would be essentially the same. Erika cited links pointing back > to > the main site as the reason why, but it's flawed thinking. > <snip> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322537 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
