As far as SEO is concerned...What is better? A page, A directory or a Sub-domain?

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  • Young
    Bland for life
    • Nov 2004
    • 10468
    #1

    As far as SEO is concerned...What is better? A page, A directory or a Sub-domain?

    see title

    please

    thanks ahead of time.

    I'd prefer to use a subdomain...but if a directory or a page is better then i'll go with that.
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    • beemk
      CLICK HERE
      • Jan 2002
      • 20829
      #2
      from my experience they are all the same, but if lets say you were linking to www.domain.com/dir/ then always link to that and never link to www.domain.com/dir/index.html because google will see that as 2 different pages even though its the same.
      I host with Vacares

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        • Young
          Bland for life
          • Nov 2004
          • 10468
          #3
          Originally posted by beemk
          from my experience they are all the same, but if lets say you were linking to www.domain.com/dir/ then always link to that and never link to www.domain.com/dir/index.html because google will see that as 2 different pages even though its the same.
          Cool...thanks. Subdomain it is then
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            • SmokeyTheBear
              ►SouthOfHeaven
              • Jun 2004
              • 28609
              #4
              subdomain is better because a search engine will list multiple subdomains for the same keyword but they will only list 2 pages if its on the name domain ( some se's )
              hatisblack at yahoo.com

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                • JD
                  Too lazy to set a custom title
                  • Sep 2003
                  • 22651
                  #5
                  i'd stay away from subdomains unless you're doing some scripted spammer shit. I've played extensively with subs in google and it's MUCH easier to get domain.com/poo/index.html to rank than poo.domain.com just my personal opinion. take it however you will.

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                    • Young
                      Bland for life
                      • Nov 2004
                      • 10468
                      #6
                      awww shit. i'm all confused now. the subdomain is going to contain the meat of the content so its important that i get it indexed. shitttttttttttttt. what to do
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                        • JD
                          Too lazy to set a custom title
                          • Sep 2003
                          • 22651
                          #7
                          Originally posted by Young
                          awww shit. i'm all confused now. the subdomain is going to contain the meat of the content so its important that i get it indexed. shitttttttttttttt. what to do
                          just bite the bullet and pick one. or go to some of the seo forums and form your own opinion

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                            • Splum
                              Confirmed User
                              • May 2003
                              • 6195
                              #8
                              subdirectory is better than subdomain

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                                • WiredGuy
                                  Pounding Googlebot
                                  • Aug 2002
                                  • 34515
                                  #9
                                  It depends on your goals. As smokey said, subdomains will get you more exposure since multiple pages will be limited to 2 results unless they're on seperate subdomains. The down part to this is often times SE's will recognize subdomains as seperate sites. So a SE may not recognize all your pages as part of one large site.

                                  WG
                                  I play with Google.

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                                    • Young
                                      Bland for life
                                      • Nov 2004
                                      • 10468
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by WiredGuy
                                      It depends on your goals. As smokey said, subdomains will get you more exposure since multiple pages will be limited to 2 results unless they're on seperate subdomains. The down part to this is often times SE's will recognize subdomains as seperate sites. So a SE may not recognize all your pages as part of one large site.

                                      WG
                                      Thanks WG...that actually has helped me make my decision to go with the subdomain as 90% of the site was going to be either put in the directory or on the subdomain. the main domain is not much of anything....hard to explain...

                                      thanks all.
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                                        • Kevsh
                                          Confirmed User
                                          • Dec 2004
                                          • 8619
                                          #11
                                          With sub-domains you can target each one differently and have them each rank well for their keywords/phrases. I've also found getting PR on subdomains is relatively easy if the main domain has nice PR - not scientific mind you, but my experience has found it to be true.

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                                            • JD
                                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                                              • Sep 2003
                                              • 22651
                                              #12
                                              the question remains that will google see the sub as a new site and potentially slap it into the "sandbox"

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                                                • ffmihai
                                                  keep walking...
                                                  • Jun 2002
                                                  • 7177
                                                  #13
                                                  all is good for a SE. im building a directory as we speak

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                                                    • pocketkangaroo
                                                      Confirmed User
                                                      • Jan 2005
                                                      • 8452
                                                      #14
                                                      I would be careful though with subdomains. Abusing them could result in a penalty. Even Matt Cutts from Google said that having too many subdomains was something that was going to be looked at more carefully now. In fact, a very prominent adult review site recently switched out of using subdomains for each review after seeing a huge drop and penalty.

                                                      They can be good, but I wouldn't abuse it. I've always been a fan of not using sub-domains.

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                                                        • MrChips
                                                          Confirmed User
                                                          • May 2005
                                                          • 1504
                                                          #15
                                                          Young - buy 20 domains - and cover all combinations - no-one can truly answer - so do the fucking lot - SERIOUSLY.

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