erika is teh isht! On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Erika L. Rich <elr...@ruwebby.com> wrote: > > 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> > > >
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