Does improve my PR?

ciwee · 10-08-2006, 09:04 AM

HI all,

I'm working to release an application and a blog simultaneously, and I will work to create backlinks to the blog and the application. I could buy two different domains but I hope using one only will help increase the PR of the domain. I know that subdomains are treated like different domains for PR, so the use of "blog.***.com" and "myapp.***.com" is not recommended. So I thought of this form: "www.***.com/blog" and "www.***.com/myapp"

Am I right? Will this help increasing the PR of both blog and application sites?

thx

stuarttan · 10-08-2006, 09:31 AM

Yep - you can check my site at Internet Marketing Singapore - Asia's Ultimate Internet Marketing Hub and Internet Marketing Singapore Blog. It follows the exact structure for subdirectories. Think of subfolders as the next level the spider will go to. If I'm not mistaken, as long as you have a link to your subdomains, there should be the same effect too. Likewise, subfolders that do not have any links won't have PR passed.

ciwee · 10-08-2006, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by stuarttan

Likewise, subfolders that do not have any links won't have PR passed.

Are you sure? if it's right it doesnt make sense to use subfolders instead of subdomains

stuarttan · 10-08-2006, 11:39 PM

Hi ciwee,

Couple of links for you:
The Art of SEO - Folders vs. Subdomains - High Rankings® Advisor
Subdomains - What are the SEO benefits?

Well - since it has been shown that the subdomain will require more effort in increasing rankings, whereas the subfolders don't get treated as a separate domain.

I looked at the World SEO contest results just on page one:

ambatchdotcom seocontest - Google Search

Seems like subdomains with keyword phrases ranks the highest!

Tell you what - I'll set up a couple of subdomains and test myself.

John Scott · 10-09-2006, 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by stuarttan

Yep - you can check my site at Internet Marketing Singapore - Asia's Ultimate Internet Marketing Hub and Internet Marketing Singapore Blog. It follows the exact structure for subdirectories. Think of subfolders as the next level the spider will go to. If I'm not mistaken, as long as you have a link to your subdomains, there should be the same effect too. Likewise, subfolders that do not have any links won't have PR passed.

Very bad form to link to your own sites from the forum with promotional anchor text.

stuarttan · 10-09-2006, 03:49 AM

Hmm - I didn't do that.

Seems like when it got posted, vbSEO pulled out the title description. *shrug*. I can't seem to find the edit link here. Could you help me with that, John? Or just remove the link anyhow - I presumed you had a nofollow link on the forum...

John Scott · 10-10-2006, 07:28 PM

Yep, that was the new version of vbseo. Fixed it.

ciwee · 10-10-2006, 07:49 PM

The answer to my first topic question is NO. subdomains are not treated diferently from subfolders.. It's easy to see using Google toolbar with PR bar

stuarttan · 10-10-2006, 09:10 PM

Well, we'll just have to test it out and see... So far, I believe you may be right.

John Scott · 10-11-2006, 05:48 AM

Subdomains are treated like different domains, and in a certain way are easier to get ranked than new domains.

There's an in-depth thread about it somewhere in here.

vistadivine.com · 10-11-2006, 05:50 AM

Well it doesn't matter of what you use a subdomain or a sub folder as long as you link to it it will have a PR.

Akash

ciwee · 10-11-2006, 06:37 AM

thx you all for the answers!

john.. wouldnt you remember what 'certain way'?

John Scott · 10-11-2006, 07:30 AM

Well, as you can see, I use a lot of subdomains for the site:

http://directory.v7n.com
http://blog.v7n.com
http://tech.v7n.com
http://partners.v7n.com
http://survey.v7n.com

And a few others...

Insofar as they are treated by Google as seperate domains, the links appear to have slightly more value, and you can get more of your total pages in the SERPs for a single keyword than if you used folders.

They are tough to rank on Yahoo, though.

vistadivine.com · 10-11-2006, 07:36 AM

Well but dont forget John that all the subdomains you use is under V7N networks it gets links from all the V7N sites directory forums etc, which is itself of high quality therefor anything getting links from your sites will be surely considered as quality sites.

Akash

ciwee · 10-11-2006, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by John Scott

and you can get more of your total pages in the SERPs for a single keyword than if you used folders.

They are tough to rank on Yahoo, though.

Sorry I didnt get that part. =/

And Vistadivine.. of course the BL make all the difference

vistadivine.com · 10-11-2006, 11:15 AM

And we clearly know that how much quality a V7N link is and what difference it can make to our rankings. Just need to be from a proper place.

Akash