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DateDoc · 09-15-2006, 08:53 AM

Which of the following would a search engine prefer as a subdomain for Albany, NY or would it not matter?

albany.mydomain.com
albany-ny.mydomain.com
albany_ny.mydomian.com

Thanks for your help!

TheJimmy · 09-15-2006, 08:58 AM

Choose #1 or #2, avoid _

Also, if you have them to spare, park that subdomain on it's own IP.

Dragar · 09-15-2006, 08:58 AM

try the third one

DarkJedi · 09-15-2006, 09:01 AM

I'd go for the second choice.

DateDoc · 09-15-2006, 09:16 AM

Thanks....anyone else?

Sosa · 09-15-2006, 09:21 AM

I would do #2 and like the sub domain on a different IP idea.

martinsc · 09-15-2006, 09:32 AM

i'd go for albany-ny.mydomain.com

Marshal · 09-15-2006, 09:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sosa

I would do #2 and like the sub domain on a different IP idea.

why would you waste one IP on this?
subdomain=subdirectory

DateDoc · 09-15-2006, 11:01 AM

thanks for the help

Boobs · 09-15-2006, 11:12 AM

yea #2 is your best bet

DateDoc · 09-15-2006, 11:27 AM

now lets say New York City, NY

new-york-city-ny.mydomain.com
-or-
newyorkcity-ny.mydomain.com

The Sultan Of Smut · 09-15-2006, 11:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BusterPorn

now lets say New York City, NY

new-york-city-ny.mydomain.com
-or-
newyorkcity-ny.mydomain.com

new-york-city-ny.mydomain.com = I'm assuming Google doesn't like this but you might want to double check. You might also want to double check how Google ranks subdomains. It used to be en vogue for SE spammers to use them and I heard Google doesn't dig 3rd level subdomains as much anymore.

fhgmaster · 09-15-2006, 12:49 PM

Maybe a hyphen makes it easier for a SE to split the domain name into the keywords. So I would use #2.

Regarding #3: You can only use letters, numbers and hyphens in Domain Names, as long as you don't want to use IDN.

squishypimp · 09-15-2006, 12:55 PM

domains cost like $3.00 now, just buy a full toplevel domain

DateDoc · 09-15-2006, 01:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by squishypimp

domains cost like $3.00 now, just buy a full toplevel domain

That cracked me up but thanks for the tip being as I own at least a couple of domains and this is just a question of what is best liked by searchengines for this domain!!

DateDoc · 09-15-2006, 02:45 PM

thanks for the help - went with cityname-st.mydomain.com

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