Domain and Submain : which choice ? (open explorer tool)
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Hi,
1/ Please could you tell me why Moztrust and Mozrank give not similar figures for subdomain and root domain ?
2/ Which is the best way for Google webmaster tool for configuring : Sub or Root domain ?
3/ Finally, regarding anchor text, Sub or root domain ?
Tks for links or knowledge base about it....
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ok tks...
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I'll give a shot at this...
Let's say you own "site.com", and on that site you have "site.com, www.site.com, and blogs.site.com"
The "Root Domain" metric, if you typed in "www.site.com" into OSE would include all 3, as it matches anything with the "Root Domain" in it.
The "Sub Domain" metric, if you typed in "www.site.com" into OSE would ONLY include links to the "www.site.com" sub domain. Yes "www." is actually a Subdomain of site.com, it just happens to be the subdomain everyone uses for general web traffic.
Each metric is useful for different things, but generally I look at the www.site.com subdomain metric. In my opinion, most authority metrics are sub-domain specific (which is why a blog on wordpress.com or blogspot.com isn't immediately ranking for everything - the root domain doesn't matter, the subdomain does).
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