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what's wrong with subdomains?
by metaprinter 17y ago
what's wrong with subdomains?
- minouye 17y agoIt dilutes link juice--a subdomain is viewed as a separate site. Putting your blog as a subdirectory helps to build the authority of your main domain.
- qeorge 17y agoYes, this is it. If you host your blog on blog.mydomain.com your main site won't receive the full benefit of the inbound links. Side note: sometimes this is desired. For instance, one domain can only occupy 2 slots in a SERP, but each subdomain can take 2 more slots. So in theory, you could take up an entire results page with your main domain and 4 subdomains.
- eli_s 17y agothey get treated as separate sites so your raking gets diluted
- cryptnoob 17y agoI'm not seeing that Matt is really admitting that there's anything wrong with them. http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/ http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/