Comments on: SEO Addon Domains / Subdomains

By: sydney web design

sydney web design — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:21:50 +0000

hi thanks for the article, i’m building a lot of SEO into the websites i make so this gave me some good ideas.
http://www.creative-web-designer.com/

By: Djames

Djames — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:42:53 +0000

First off, the link that you posted is for people who use addon domains with same content as the main domain with no variance in it how the page is viewed by search engines. What the htaccess mod rewtire rule does, is change the subdomain to match the domain name, example would be, test.com and sub.test.com would appear the same, and sub.test.com would just be test.com, I do not know why he would want this to happen, but he seems to think it works. I don’t know why he just doesn’t tell people to use website folders, instead of making a subdomain, because he is accomplishing the same thing, and getting the benefit of a true sub domain.

As far as my article goes, I recommend changing the content, layout, tags, etc to make it look like a new and different website, so it can gain it’s own search ranking, and be it’s own entity. Using this technique you can have it link back to the main site and be relevant and increase your main website ranking. It will also give you more listings in an organic search results by using your sub domains. So instead of howbits.com being indexed in search results, I also have forum.howbits.com indexed, news.howbits.com, and pictures.howbits.com being indexed, thus resulting in more search results.

Some people like to continue buying more domain names to accomplish this feat, I prefer to just use free sub domains, same as google, yahoo, and msn.

By: 7ota

7ota — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:43:23 +0000

Hey Djames , i want to ask you Some Q
lets to talk if i have DomainA & DomainB & DomainC
Domain C has Big SEO ranking so i want to share this ranking to A & C .. how to do that? is it possible ?
i found this article http://www.rankwell.co.uk/htaccess-for-addon-domains.html
is that helping me to doing what i want ?

Thanx for your article

By: Djames

Djames — Tue, 20 May 2008 07:55:31 +0000

Glad I could help you Louis, if you have any questions fill free to visit the forum, I check it daily and I will be happy to help our.

By: louis

louis — Mon, 19 May 2008 21:35:48 +0000

Excellent , and clear .I have been searching sub domains for the last 5 hours with conflicting results and off topic articles ! Yours is the first that has told me exactly what i wanted to know . I just yesterday picked my domain name and server , but before I do anything ,as I want to have multiple websites on unrelated topics (sub domains) ,I want to setup my domain before I start into 10 subdomains …But very little information on it , it’s like a secret on how to succeed! Thanks for sharing , I’ve bookmarked already!

By: James Mann

James Mann — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:02:28 +0000

I really like this article it’s informative.

I enjoy reading the pros and cons of all things marketing, especially search engines.

I am adding you to my news reader so I can keep up with you daily.

By: Djames

Djames — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:10:21 +0000

A regular domain is this…

http://www.howbits.com

A subdomain or a addon domain is

pictures.howbits.com

If you go to google.com and type in howbits, you will see http://www.howbits.com, pictures.howbits.com, forum.howbits.com, and news.howbits.com, even though I only have one domain which is howbits.

Each addon domain, minus the forum, has a indented listing in the search engines, result in 8 listings showing up in google.com.

Note: In my cpanel for hostmonster, hostgator, and mmhosting, it’s referred as addon domains.

If I want to make make http://www.howbits.com/news/ I would create a new folder called news in the directory for howbits.com. For addon domains, you type in the name, set which folder in the directory will be linked to the addon domain and you are all set up.

By: Darko

Darko — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:08:22 +0000

Let’s say i have a domain named DOMAIN1.com , and i make a add-on domain on the same hosting that is called DOMAIN2.com. When i search for domain2 on google it gives me back a search result wich states DOMAIN1.com/DOMAIN2/ which is acctually true cuz DOMAIN2 is acctually a subdomain, but i want DOMAIN1.com not to be included in the search result when i search for DOMAIN2. Is this possible and if so, how can i do it ?
Thanks in advance

By: Djames

Djames — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:16:39 +0000

Well first off, by adding a Add-on Domain, you will not damage the PageRank or the Alexa Rank of your main website. I recommend leaving all your current content where it is. Just make the Add-on domain and continue to grow the new areas.

Second thing…. Alexa rank is meaningless, only people with Alexa Tool Bar increase your ranking. If you want a good article to read on this.. [url=http://blog.v7n.com/2006/03/28/alexa-is-bunk/]follow this link.[/url]

By: Ubuntu

Ubuntu — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:37:26 +0000

I wish you could rewrite this article to make it simpler. I get the sort of general idea but your ideas and specifics and how to apply them safely , without damages to my websites or pagerank / alexa rank elude me