Microsite question
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Good morning, I have a client who is a local realtor www.chantre.com and they have several locations in their region. We created individual sites for their locations that are linked from their main site (on the left bottom).
I need some advice and guidance...
- Are the location sites a good consideration as microsites?
- I know we should include the rel=canonical tag and are in the process of doing so, but any comments on this would be appreciated
- I know the answer to this one, but the client insists on continually asking about it...would it be better to have the location sites linked from the main site as subdomains?
- Any other suggestions to either prove or disprove our technique in breaking out the location sites, whether it's a good idea or if we are harming their SEO is appreciated
THANKS!
Darlene -
Separate sites are better than subdomains, but you probably could have done this all under the one main domain.
If you're doing interlinking i would nofollow the links, or if you need to dofollow the links then i would only link from the microsites to the main site.
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