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Hello Moz Community, Very recently I've started working with a national branch of a global company. The way they have their website set up is that you must pick one of the National branches from the main home page. From there, you'll get content related to that country (I'm in a Canada, so naturally, I'm working on the Canadian side). The question I have is more from a URL structure. Because I can only make any influence for the national side, would it make sense to put it on its own subdomain or is this older SEO thinking? Example:
Currently: reallylongdomain.com/global/ca/pages/page-title.aspx
Recommended: canada.reallylongdomain.com/page-title Thanks, 
Dan