| Trying to create themes -subdomains and urls
confusion about themes, subdomains and urls |
jckos
msg:229633 | 12:33 pm on Aug 28, 2002 (gmt 0) |
After reading this good thread, I'm attempting to create a themes site. I'm working on a small online catalogue. There are several themes (and associated keywords) I'm targeting. I can create subdomains, but they have to be redirects, becasue my site is dynamically generated. Is that a problem? I can't see what the benefit is because the urls won't resolve to the dubdomain names and I'm concerned about submitting them to engines and getting blocked. Also, I have a function that changes the common dynamic urls to slashes e.g. www.domain.com/knit/. One problem I see is that I don't have the right keywords in the url, which I'm fixing. Am I right in doing that? Some of my URLs, lack keywords after the first level, so the url looks like this [domain.com...]
where the numbers of ids in the db. I would replace them with good keywords, but I noticed those pages don't get any page rank and I read here that too many levels deep won't get ranked with an index that has a low pagerank. I'm just starting out, so it is pretty low. Any help is appreciated [edited by: msgraph at 1:03 pm (utc) on Aug. 28, 2002]
[edit reason] no url drops please [/edit]
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paynt
msg:229634 | 2:50 pm on Aug 28, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Hello jckos, Welcome to Webmaster World [webmasterworld.com]. There are sure a bunch of sub-domains (canonicals) discussion going on lately. I find this interesting. I’ll jump in with a few opinions regarding your questions. | I'm attempting to create a themes site. |
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Congratulations, you have entered a new world of site development. I hope you’ve run a search on the term themes and then fine-tune that search because we’ve talked a lot about themes. Also, when looking for the term sub-domain, subdomain, also check for canonical. We’ve talked quite a bit about that as well. | right keywords in the url…Am I right in doing that? |
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I like it. | changes the common dynamic urls to slashes |
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I really like that, wish it happened more often. For one thing I think you’ll receive more link interest, which can work to your benefit. When I’m link hunting I steer clear from the appearance of dynamic links. Although, I see plenty of dynamic linking accepted by Google so that’s not the reason. You’re main question about redirects I’ll leave to the technical pros;) I did work on a hub that sounds similar in structure to what you are describing and I didn’t have any problems.
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agerhart
msg:229635 | 8:46 pm on Aug 28, 2002 (gmt 0) |
jckos, would the redirect be server side?
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jckos
msg:229636 | 4:54 pm on Aug 29, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Yes, the redirects are on the server.
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Sanenet
msg:229637 | 5:30 pm on Aug 30, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Instead of redirects, you can use includes, if you have a wildcard DNS. Set up a URL checker and associate a directory with a virtual subdomain, so if sub.domain.com is requested, the site will return domain.com/sub/page.cfm. This method, however, depends upon you having wildcard dns and control over your server :s
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agerhart
msg:229638 | 5:32 pm on Aug 30, 2002 (gmt 0) |
You should be okay with server side redirects.
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jckos
msg:229639 | 6:34 pm on Aug 30, 2002 (gmt 0) |
Interesting mote about the wildcards. I suspect that my host doesn't offer that but I will check. Learned something new about DNS. Thanks.
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