Subdomain Questions

JahRuhle

JahRuhle

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I had a few questions about subdomains before I start building a new site of mine.

1. sports.com/basketball/kobebryant vs basketball.sports.com/kobebryant

Which one is more SEO friendly? Does it even matter

2. Lets say I got a shitload of backlinks for sports.com; Will this affect the SEO of basketball.sports.com? Or do I have to seperate backlinks for every subdomain?

3. Is there a way to mass install Wordpress on all my subdomains or do i have to do each one individually?

4. Am i headed the wrong direction using subdomains like this at all? Should I just be going the generic website.com/folder/folder?
 


You should probably start off with just the standard domain.com/folder/page...

generally, subdomains are treated as separate entities from the main domains, but the authority of the domain can help support the subdomain. Unless you have a need to split things out into subdomains like that, you're best off keeping it all under the domain.com umbrella and building out a nice big longtail oriented site.
 
1. sports.com/basketball/kobebryant for most sites. If everything is directly related on your site and they are basically sub-categories, I see no need to create subdomains. On a site like say cnn, I would use sports.cnn.com, news.cnn.com etc.

2. As dchuk said, it will help but not as much as having it under the main domain.

3. As HurrDurr said, install the wordpress mu, which is a platform where you can create multiple sites either using subdomains or you can create them in folders.

4. For a new site, there is no need to do subdomains really. Just make it easy on yourself and stick with folders for now while you focus on other more important things, like traffic and content.
 
Yes, search engines threat subdomains as a new domain name so you will have to do separate backlinking for your subdomains. Of course the link from your main site will push the subdomain if you have an authority site but still the better way is to go through folders and not subdomains..
 
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