Comments on: An SEO Guide On Subdomains vs Subdirectories

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Subdomain vs. Subdirectory: Pros, Cons, + Which is Best — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 14:34:03 +0000

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By: MyQuests

MyQuests — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 09:45:52 +0000

In reply to Craig Emerson. Hi thanks for the article. Now 10 years later, do you still think this is the case and Google still treats subdomains as a separate Website or would they have learn to discern if really separate or not?

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By: AndyTLairdAndy T. Laird

AndyTLairdAndy T. Laird — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:19:46 +0000

In reply to AndyTLairdAndy T. Laird. My apologies for the errors in my last comment! Perhaps i shouldn't be typing during the early hours! What I meant was should I place these 3 different subjects into sub domains or directories?

By: AndyTLairdAndy T. Laird

AndyTLairdAndy T. Laird — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 17:17:04 +0000

I have a website and we’re in the process of translating it into another language and my plan is to place this into a sub domain which I believe is the right thing to do? I assume this can rank as it’s own website. My mane website has 3 totally different subjects: Photography, Web Development, and Health all of which I have a passion about and keep me busy.At the moment they are in different categories on the main WordPress website. Should I place these into 3 different sub domains or categories?

By: Elena

Elena — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 08:57:55 +0000

Using a subdomain has a lot of benefits over a sub directory such as separate deployment and better branding. You wouldn’t get the existing SEO ranking of your main domain though. It’s a trade-off yet will definitely yield better results in the long run.

By: Jonathan Jefferies

Jonathan Jefferies — Mon, 17 Dec 2018 04:00:08 +0000

This is no longer true – in fact having a subdomain not only eases deployment (particularly functional components across multiple clouds/hosting environments) it also assists with SEO ranking and cross promotion once a baseline indexing level has been achieved. It does require some thought to cross linking/promotion across domains but the cumulative ranking impact over time is greater than sub-directory – our site moved from sub-directory to sub-domain and all things remaining equal we are now ranking higher than 6 months earlier without having materially changed anything else.

By: byahey

byahey — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 18:33:29 +0000

This is the answer for my questions. I am thinking of moving my subdomain to subfolder.

By: prabhudas

prabhudas — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 06:06:20 +0000

Hi bro, Your case study made my day. I have realized that i m in same path. Thank you bro for your wonderful content Long Live “SEO”

By: Craig Emerson

Craig Emerson — Thu, 10 May 2018 16:50:25 +0000

In reply to brvnbld. You and 100’s of others have doubts. This post has been discussed in a number of SEO forums and has received considerable debate. Regardless of that, I stand by what I saw in the results when I did this years ago. If I understand your question correctly, you’ll have WordPress installed and a standalone Website created in a separate directory. Any links pointing to either instance should help the other, as they are both on the same sub domain.