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Jan 5th, 2009

hello,
I have seen some sites with different Sub domains for different services.what is the use of it?

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Re: About Subdomains

Jan 5th, 2009

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Originally Posted by shubhangid

hello,
I have seen some sites with different Sub domains for different services.what is the use of it?

Essentially they serve to separate the services. It can be easier to manage the webpages on the server in this way.

There can also be a slight SEO advantage with regards to naming convention.

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Originally Posted by canadafred

Essentially they serve to separate the services. It can be easier to manage the webpages on the server in this way.

There can also be a slight SEO advantage with regards to naming convention.

But is Separate domain considered as separate site?

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Originally Posted by shubhangid

But is Separate domain considered as separate site?

I haven't had to deal with that situation before but I would think that it depends mostly on how you have the sub-domain linking to the root domain. If no links are exchanged then it is safe to think the search engine will treat them separately.