Sub Directories Domain & Page Crawl Depth
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Hi,
I just bought an old domain with good backlinks and authority, that domain was technology product formerly.
So, I want to make this domain for my money site. The purpose of this website is to serve technological information like WordPress tutorial and etc (free software or drivers).
And I just installed a sub directory on this domain like https://maindomain.com/subdirectory/ and this directory I made for a free software like graphics drivers download (NVIDIA or AMD). What you think with this website? Is it make sense?
Wait, I just added this domain to my campaign at MOZ and the result shown my sub directory was 6 times of crawl depth. Is it good for directory or I need to move the sub directory to my main site?
Thank you, hope someone answer my confuse.
Best Regard, Matthew.
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Unless the content which earned the authority is very similar to the new content, Google might nuke the site's rankings anyway. I hope you also checked the site's historic SEO performance (traffic, ranking keywords) as, authority and links don't necessarily mean the site is work a damn
If the site had loads of good links but blocked Google from crawling it, then that authority may never have translated in SEO ranking power. If the site had strong SEO authority, that may have been offset by previous Google penalties and stuff like that - which don't reduce (but do entirely nullify) the benefit of having strong authority metrics
The days of just buying a site then putting your own stuff on and it does equally as well, are pretty much gone. Maybe you will be lucky, I don't know.
If Google does reboot your SEO authority, I don't think you'll get it back again with that kind of site. Free driver sites that push driver software (regmechanic, secunia PSI) are ten a penny and the best of them are 'iffy' at best (users often get issues like the wrong bit-architecture of the driver is installed on their OS - e.g: 32 bit driver is installed on system that supports 64 bit driver)
Some providers developed very powerful scanners, but they mostly evolved into software solutions (rather than more shallow websites). It's unlikely that in 2019, a site without a solid value-proposition (what unique value does it add to the web?) will take off or become Google-popular
If your SEO authority doesn't get nuked you might have a shot, but that will depend upon how similar your new content is to the old content (in mathematical terms, not human terms - e.g: Boolean string similarity comparison stats for whole content pieces)
It's kind of redundant when, most manufacturers produce software which automatically keeps all drivers up to date anyway (e.g: GeForce Experience). Those bespoke tools often do a much better job of driver installation too! One tool for all your PC upgrades has been a holy grail for decade, IMO it's a bit of a wild goose chase
Read this post also: https://moz.com/community/q/why-would-my-page-have-a-higher-pa-and-da-links-on-page-grade-still-not-rank
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