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Originally Posted by jewboy 
Ah, this is always a hot topic at the conferences.
Think of subdomains as a way to organize your site's structure, rather than as a means to to rank better. Great examples of sites that properly and effectively use subdomains are craigslist (organized by region), wikipedia (language), and the NYT (section).
For what it's worth, Matt Cutts of Google "says" that keywords in the URL's may help rankings.
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Originally Posted by AussieWebmaster
that used to be the case and the branding thing is still true but look at Google search results... the domain name as a keyword gets a lot of play these days
Otherwise all of the big companies would be doing it ... Amazon.com would be called cheap-online-bookstore.com and eBay.com would be called online-auctions.com. There's a reason they don't
Check out this post of mine from 2004 => http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post40716-9.html
It's rather old but IMHO it still applies.
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lol..... branding is seprate from ranking.... you can always have the branded domain as a standalone or even have it redirect to the other
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I was under the impression that if you have a branded domain 301 redirect to the real deal, then Google will discount the redirected domain in favor of everything related to what it's pointing to. And if you don't use a 301 redirect, then that's duplicate content?
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> branding is seprate from ranking
That's my point When choosing a domain name, choose it because it is brandable and not because it could marginally help you with a keyword or two.
That's my point
When choosing a domain name, choose it because it is brandable and not because it could marginally help you with a keyword or two. The all point is this one........
(1) if all the website is regarding a single keyword (cats) I don't need any subdomains probably. I can have more folders anyway....... example
mydomain.com/food-for-cat
mydomain.com/home-for-cat
BUT ... suppose that my url has nothing to do with cat....
is not better ...........
food-for-cat.mydomain.com
home-for-cat.mydomain.com
????????????????
(2) suppose that my website is about cats AND alligators!
suppose that my url has nothing to do with cats.... AND alligators....
In this case I think is better definetely use subdomain....... then............
cats.mydomain.com
alligators.mydomain.com
In my case I'm now using just folder but thinking to do somethign also with subdomain.... will see.......
(1) if all the website is regarding a single keyword (cats) I don't need any subdomains probably. I can have more folders anyway....... example
mydomain.com/food-for-cat
mydomain.com/home-for-cat
BUT ... suppose that my url has nothing to do with cat....
is not better ...........
food-for-cat.mydomain.com
home-for-cat.mydomain.com
????????????????
(2) suppose that my website is about cats AND alligators!
suppose that my url has nothing to do with cats.... AND alligators....
In this case I think is better definetely use subdomain....... then............
cats.mydomain.com
alligators.mydomain.com
In my case I'm now using just folder but thinking to do somethign also with subdomain.... will see.......
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