I agree. But at the same time because its still on the main domain which has authority i have a hard time believing the engines don't trust the url more as a sub-domain vs a bran new url.
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Latest posts made by shandaman
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RE: Exact match subdomains
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RE: Exact match subdomains
Hey Mate,
One of my clients has around 20 terms on his site that we created exact match sub-pages for which are basically:
These rank very well, I can't say they are as good as an actual exact domain match but they def help get us ranking faster because the keywords in the url at all create authority.
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RE: Best Practice for Deleting Pages
This is why I suggested the Google webmaster tools.
Bing has a similar tool aswell.
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RE: Best Practice for Deleting Pages
Normally I would agree Nick but he already stated the employees have left the company, leaving content about them on the site is not proper business.
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RE: Best Practice for Deleting Pages
Remove it and also update your sitemap to reflect the change. I know in Google webmaster tools it will allow you to block certain pages from now being crawled.