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domain.mobi (Subdirectory)

Pros

• Carrier transcoding. Sprint PCS in the US and Vodaphone in the UK transcode (modify websites) that you load on your phone for the best experiences (although, it breaks some websites). These carriers assume .mobi is mobile-friendly and do not modify their content.
• .mobi means mobile-friendly and is best for search: Some search engines can be set to only search .mobi domains with the assumption that they're all mobile-friendly. Although, this area is very new and search engines can determine a mobile-friendly site via other methods, this is one area of speculation.
• Brandable. Some might say that .mobi is more brand-able than m.domain.com. For instance, it's easier to tell people to go to http://domain.mobi and build a campaign around it than http://m.domain.com.
• Separate control. This might be important for an agency who is building a mobile website for a client. If they wanted to purchase and host the domain names themselves, they can. This can speed up the process for getting a domain established for the mobile site.

Cons

• Opportunity for domain squatters. Several companies own their domain.com, but they don't always own the .net/.org variations. This could either be due to never having thought about it, lack of interest, or the .net/.org being owned by a domain squatter. The domain squatter also has the opportunity to purchase domain.mobi
• More effort to type. .mobi takes longer to type than .com thanks to the .com button on most smartphones. At the end of the day, a .mobi domain isn't needed much.
• New domain, no SEO juice. A .mobi domain would be treated as a new domain name and it wouldn't take any SEO from whatever current domain you have.
• Costs involved and inconvenience. The cost of a .mobi domain and added inconvenience for managing it may not make it worthwhile.

m.domain.com(Subdomain)

Pros

• Easier to access and maintain. The DNS is all stored under the same domain. No additional domain to purchase, set up, and manage.
• Easier to type on a phone. iPhone and Android on-screen keyboards include a .com button on the virtual keyboard.
• Keeps your brand in-tact. People already know domain.com is yours. Something like domain.mobimight confuse them.
• Free. Setting up a subdomain should be a simple process depending on the web host.
• Higher adoption in the US. Companies such as Yahoo, Twitter, Google, YouTube, and Facebook have adopted this method.
• Support for multinational domains. Some companies such as Amazon have Amazon.com for their US presence and Amazon.co.uk for their UK presence. A .mobi site just comes in .mobi. I suppose you could have co.uk.amazon.mobi, but that sounds messy (and backwards). m.amazon.co.uk makes more sense.
• It's what Matt Cutts said. Matt, who works at Google and shares webmaster tips for best practices, suggested that m.domain.com will do the trick.
• _Cookie support. _This may be one of the greatest benefits of the m.domain.com method. Cookies, or temporary files on your computer used to store information, can be set for a domain and a certain subdomain. With domain.mobi, however, cookies cannot work across multiple domains. So, if you logged into a mobile website but needed to view the desktop website and wanted to switch to that mode, using m.domain.com would be best so you can stay logged in between both sites.

Cons

• Too ambiguous. Some would argue "m.domain.com" makes no sense and isn't intuitive for people looking for the mobile site.
• No carrier transcoding. Few phone carriers are transcoding websites so when someone access a site on their phone the website gets reduced in size so it loads faster. This could break some desktop websites and mobile sites. Only Sprint PCS in the US and Vodaphone in the UK are doing this that we've heard of. The work around is to manually register your mobile website as a mobile website with each carrier.

One question I often hear is which makes more sense for someone to type in, m.domain.com, or domain.mobi? My answer: if you want the mobile version, go to the desktop site and it should take you to the mobile version.

If in doubt, use m.domain.com and redirect the domain.mobi to m.domain.com.

This was the more common method of delivering a mobile optimized website before responsive design came along. You have a mobile site on a different sub-domain, such as m.bbc.co.uk, keeping all of your mobile content on different URLs.

The two most important points if you’re using this method are:

Use the rel=”alternate” tag pointing to the mobile URL on the desktop version of the page, helping Google find your mobile content.

Use the rel=”canonical” tag pointing to the desktop URL on the mobile version of the page, helping Google understand which version of the content is duplicated.

**At the last my suggestion is go with subdomain for mobile website. **

Let me know if you need more help.

Hey  Stephen,

It's not a big issue. You can do it without 301 redirection. You have to verify Google Webmaster with www and without www. Then you can prefer domain as www. By this way you have clear to Google that your preferred domain is with www.

Although it's does not matter whether you go with www or without www. But for the better response from search engines you can go with www as you maximum root domain is with www. Please go with www in .htaccess redirection.

Let me know if you need more help.

Yes, GA will treat like this if they don't have active session. If that visitor is working same session then it will not overwrite organic. It will not increase your organic search either. It will only show the increment in your page views.

I don't think there is any service available to track organic traffic over multiple days/sessions.

Hi,

I am agree with @Takeshi Young.

It will not give you any direct benefit. Although It may be helpful in improvement of you Click Through Rate(CTR) that will give you indirect benefit for your SEO campaign.

G Anlytics will count them direct visitor and also it will count under returning visitors.

Hi,

You are right. For Windows server, .htaccess file doesn't work. You need some setting in your windows IIS server. URL writing facility is not available for less than 7 version. If your IIS version is IIS7 or greater then you can solve all SEO related problem by given link http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/04/20/tip-trick-fix-common-seo-problems-using-the-url-rewrite-extension.aspx

Hope my answer will solve you problem.

Hey Wesley,

Sub-directory will be a good option. You can find more info http://moz.com/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites  

I also like the common sense approach. Is your blog part of your site? Yes? Then have it as part of your site. Are you going to write around the topic of your products and services? Yep, Great. Then have it as part of your site so you can link them when natural to do so.

Thanks Martijn Scheybeler, I have just updated my sitemap. It might be take time. I have updated many times sitemap, but didn't see this type of graph. Its OK if It is not an issue and one more thing, My pages are ranking fine. These small doubt can ruin your all efforts. This question shows my seriousness about my website.

I can see them all the pages showing up in Google when i search for my site. But in webmaster tools under the sitemaps section in the indexed pages - the red bar is showing 0 indexed pages, even though they seem to be indexed.

Any idea why is this showing like this? I don’t really think it’s that important as the pages are still indexed, but it just seems odd.

Please see in the image.

Thanks @Federico Einhorn and @Marcus Miller

I am already aware of these things. But you can find other articles those have huge contradictions. I know it will give much befits. But still I wanted to strengthen my point.

Thanks a lot

Hi,

I am much aware with SEO. But still there is a confusion in my mind. I am in the process of making blog for my Business website. I am confused between whether my blog should be with sub-directory(www.metaoption.com/ blog) or with sub-domain(blog. metaoption.com). There are many articles on this topic but they have created much confusions.

Please suggest me the best option and also give me reason behind it if you can.

Thanks

Home page backlinks will distribute the link juice on whole inner page. Most of the time home page gets backlinks because of the most prompt page of the website. But it also depends on  the most relevant link concept. If your inner page is best relevant  for getting any backlink then you should choose inner one.

But most of the backlink provider resources(directory, forum signature etc.) prefer home page of websites.

SEOMoz Tool crawls a website once a week, but you can do a separate crawl of any site (up to 3000 URLs) at http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test. They generally update crawl Thursday to Thursday along with Ranking.

Congrats Man. You are one the few lucky guys who has done this.

Michael York is right. You should go with 302 redirection. Then after new design you can go with 301 redirection.

If you have set your preferred domain then its fine. It means you have already told Google about your preference.

If your website is old and you have made several backlinks on you non-preferred domain then link juice will not be transfer. It will be a better practice if you will do it also through 301 redirection.

If your website have problem with delay in cached, follow the following steps:

1. Check the crawl error and robots.txt if any through GWT
2. Re-fetched the website through GWT with "URL and linked pages submitted to index" option.
3. Try to increase your website visibility through Social bookmarking and social networking promotion

You will get sure benefit through above practice.

Yes, No doubt. You should change and keep your all duplicate page title and also if you have duplicate content, change them asap.

It will give you good impact. Just you should check the website relevancy and anchor text link. If these criteria are fine then you are gaining good backlink.

There is no any exact figure of keyword count per page. Most of the people suggest it should be 2 to 3%. But I don't agree with this logic. You should focus on audience engagement content. If your content is up to the audience preference, it will automatically pick your target keywords from you content.

My suggestion is just focus on you content quality with target keywords and forget about the rest.

Yes, It's not good for SEO.  If you have IIS server then follow these instructions for canonical problem:

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/04/20/tip-trick-fix-common-seo-problems-using-the-url-rewrite-extension.aspx  This is only applicable for  IIS7 or later server version.

If you have Apache server then check this URL:

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/rewriteguide.html

David is right. Google just wants to give the ease to users. It's good tactics is you are providing your contact details without harm the content placement.

What should be the ration of inbound link between Home page and Internal pages?  And also wanted to clear my doubt, suppose My website is related to Technology niche with different technologies like PHP, Java etc. Is this better idea to submit internal PHP page link in PHP related directories? Although I know that in the most of the directories have very large number of categories.

You can avoid the penalty by intermediate URL creation like Google Ads(Double click URL). It will not pass any juice to your website and your advertisement will also continue.

Otherwise it is great possibility of penalty.

Yes, Its count. I remember once Matt had explained about (-) and (_) in to the URL formation. It means there is something for URL formation. It's also true by logic of search engines.