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in my opinion? definitely subdirectory. and in fact it will still be tidier on the server maintainability ..

For example please consider the following setup

you have your MYDOMAIN.com located at /var/www/html-mydomain

and by using a SUBDOMAIN.MYDOMAIN.COM, you will generally have them at /var/www/html-subdomain-mydomain

it looks tidier as you said it BUT you can achieve exactly the same thing using MOD_REWRITE

so perhaps right now your MYDOMAIN.com/SUB is located at /var/www/html-mydomain/SUB right? you can actually write a .htaccess that whenever user is going to MYDOMAIN.com/SUB it actually load the page under /var/www/html-subdomain-mydomain instead ! (so the server maintainability between using the subdirectory and subdomain will be exactly the same)

a much more technical example , put this inside your .htaccess of your root domain home directory

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST}   ^[www\.]*sub-domain-name.domain-name.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/sub-domain-directory/.*
RewriteRule   ^(.*)  /sub-domain-directory/$1  [L]

This will cause the following situation

when people go to http://sub-domain-name.domain-name.com/a.html AND http://domain-name.com/sub-domain-directory/a.html

both of them will open your /sub-domain-directory/a.html instead

hope this help

Hmm anyone notices ? that when i search 'Dejan Seo love' , the one without hyphenation scored better... while 'Dejan seo love_s_' gives a different result ...

And when we searched 'dejan seo testing' although the hyphenation scored better but the result for the one without hyphenation has all words BOLDED out like this 'Did you know that dejanseolovestesting.com.'

Hmm google indeed works in mysterious way xD

PS : It is too bad that your title is "Dejan Love Testing" i wonder if you have a "Dejan Loves Testing" that the result would be different?

It goes like this

1. you have to extract all of the text content and picture into external source first, for example the text all put into mysql and the pictures are on separate jpeg file

2. you can then program your flash to load that data externally

3. after that you can create a HTML version that utilize those text data (from database) and images (from that jpeg files) , this way whenever you change the data inside your HTML , the data on your flash changes too

4. You have to try display EVERYTHING in html first

5. for example , when people go to xyz.com it will open the HTML first, with all navigation menu available... you optimize this site first ....

6. after the HTML is working perfectly, you can then simply put all of that html under a div that we will override using SWFObject (when a flash player detected)

for example

ALL HTML Content goes here, it will be safely overriden by SWFObject when Flash is detected..

that is all i can say for now... I really wish my blog post has been approved so that you can read the detailed method with picture to guide you through your mission on making your flash movie seo friendly..

REMEMBER to make a site SEO friendly, you have no other choice but to create a HTML Site first, after that override it with FLASH (when flash is detected)... and remember to put all data on EXTERNAL SOURCE, NEVER EVER inside the flash movie

http://ikt.co.id my site has ranked well on many keywords like "bikin website" , "flash seo" , and many others (only on google.co.id) , so i know this method works PERFECTLY

yes , so never ever take it down, especially when the old site has many backlinks to it already ...

If you are looking for a better way for localization (instead of /en /uk), i think it would be far better for your to purchase local cctld (.co.uk) instead... you can than mark it under your google webmaster tools, that the .co.uk is a content served for UK audiences... and it would be quite easy and much neater too

my 2 cents

To tell you the truth it is actually very easy , but you have to familiar yourself with .htaccess HTTP REWRITE engine .. Seriously it took exactly 2 lines of code to detect and 301 redirects walla.mywebsite.com into www.mywebsite.com/walla

HTTP Rewrite is an extremely useful tool, if you are not familiar with them , please go here http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/sitemanagement/urlrewriting.html (or just google http rewrite redirect)

I dont have a theory for my choice, but if i were you, i would have picked the PA 70 page for sure

I have not experienced this , do you still have the CSV for all of those inbound links? have you tried researching the missing links (such as which domain is the missing links coming from) ?

In my opinion, i think there is no problem ... But if you want to be on a safe side , why not filled it with useful information instead?

For example : I went to City X Hub Page... when it has absolutely no home at all, i think the visitor would be much more happier when they see certain information like "Duh... no one is selling home in this Ghost City, perhaps you would be interested in properties from nearest city around it such as Show some good home on City Y and City Z "

have you check this out ? http://www.seomoz.org/marketplace

Or in some cases, you need to wait for next report generation

For example, my site's Ranking Report is generated every tuesday

And I added new keywords on friday (that perhaps have never been crawled by SEOMOZ Bot) , in this case I need to wait until the next tuesday when SEOMOZ Bot generates new Ranking Report