Passing value in a subdomain
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Hi guys,
I am planning of setting up a blog within a client's website, due to limitations to their server environment, I can only setup the blog in a subdomain, I have read in some articles saying subdomains don't pass value as well as subfolders. My questions are:
- Is it true that subdomains can't pass SEO value? For example, if I set up a blog (say blog.mydomain.com), will that improve long tail searches for my website (mydomain.com)?
- What are some recommendations for subdomains so that it passes more value back to the root domain (for example, internal linking from subdomain back to root domain)
Thanks guys.
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Clement, did this answer your question, or do you still need some more help? We'd be happy to help, just drop a note here.
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Based on the version you have on your server, these documents would be helpful:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_rewrite.html
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_rewrite.html
Please note: this is not something you would like to do unless you know Apache confuration yourself and you know the codes and its logic.
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Thanks for your response,
I haven't try apache based redirect and url rewriting, care to elaborate more on these?
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Subdomains do not pass on good link juice to your domain. As Alan rightly pointed out the value is undermined due to the fact that Google sees them as separate domains.
Have you tried apache based redirection and URL rewriting?
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Lets say you had a domain xyz.com, and you had 3 peole tbhat had their own blogs
tom.xyz.com
dick.xyz.com
harry.xyz.comwel then search engines may see this as non related sites
but if you had a site clothing.com
and had shirts.clothing.com
and shorts.clothing.com
and pants.clothing.com
then search engines proobably will see them as the sameto help to make sure you are seem as one in the same site, do planty of linking betwen sites, haveing all your images and stayle sheets in teh parent domain will also help search engines see that you are one large site.
try to make the links both ways,i have done this on a few sites and i have had good results
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