Does Site Structure Affect Google

[richardjoseph]

Hi - I'm pretty new at this.

We’re running an e-commerce affiliate site at http://www.mydomain.com. So we don’t take payments but customer gets passed through to third party sites when they select to buy a product. We have a blog at http://www.mydomain.com/news.

I think Google is treating these 2 sites as as separate sites for PR.  For this reason we're thinking about moving this to http://news.mydomain.com.  Anyone have any experience in this?

[gmk1567]

Sub domains have pros and cons. If you expect displaying multiple pages of your domains (main and sub) on the search result pages for the same keyword then sub domain will be better option but sub domain pages won't get more value from PR of main domain.

[Devanur-Rafi]

Hi Richard,

PageRank differs from page to page and it depends on the inbound links for a particular page.

So, if you see different PR for your homepage and any other page, there is nothing to worry and its not that Google treats them two different domains. Coming to your query regarding the sub-domain for your news section, please go through the discussion given below:

http://www.seomoz.org/q/multiple-subdomains-my-worst-seo-mistake-now-what-should-i-do

Good luck.

Best regards,

Devanur Rafi.