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I have set up a project for a client but i'm having the trouble where I need to site the blog of the website, running on a sub domain (.net reasons), the rest of the website sites under the normal www. (The blog runs under "blog.domain", a prefix of the domain).
However, the client isn't happy with this as they believe this will effect their Google rankings for the blog and not be as strong as if the blog was in a folder on the site "domain/blog".
My understanding is Google will treat the sub domain the same.....
Could anybody please shed some light on this situation?
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I think Google treat every sub domain as separate domain from its main domain and the sub domain has its own PR also. But, the sub domain should not duplicate copy and the content should be unique from its main domain.
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Client is smarter than the developer I hate when that happens!
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Originally Posted by Moocow
I have set up a project for a client but i'm having the trouble where I need to site the blog of the website, running on a sub domain (.net reasons), the rest of the website sites under the normal www. (The blog runs under "blog.domain", a prefix of the domain).
However, the client isn't happy with this as they believe this will effect their Google rankings for the blog and not be as strong as if the blog was in a folder on the site "domain/blog".
My understanding is Google will treat the sub domain the same.....
Could anybody please shed some light on this situation?
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Search engines will treat subdomains more like separate domains, so it many cases using sub-folders is the way to go, so that you are not spreading yourself to thin. check a nice post on this topic by SEOmoz at http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites
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Originally Posted by Moocow
I have set up a project for a client but i'm having the trouble where I need to site the blog of the website, running on a sub domain (.net reasons), the rest of the website sites under the normal www. (The blog runs under "blog.domain", a prefix of the domain).
However, the client isn't happy with this as they believe this will effect their Google rankings for the blog and not be as strong as if the blog was in a folder on the site "domain/blog".
My understanding is Google will treat the sub domain the same.....
Could anybody please shed some light on this situation?
Many thanks
You really don't have many options.. tell them if they want a WordPress blog on a sub folder they need to get a site that will run off of apache NOT MS!
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