| Directory in Folder or Subdomain
Should a directory be in a folder on the main site or a subdomain? |
riospace
msg:3297646 | 5:41 pm on Mar 30, 2007 (gmt 0) |
I recently created a directory that is related to the subject of my website. I put the directory in a folder at: mainwebsite.com/directory Would it be better for this directory to be a subdomain like: directory.example.com The directory contains only websites that are related to the content of my site, but I want to be able to market the directory and charge to submit sites.
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cameraman
msg:3297712 | 6:42 pm on Mar 30, 2007 (gmt 0) |
If you were in charge of the server hardware and you knew it would get a significant amount of its own traffic, you'd make the decision based on server load and such. As a user in a shared hosting environment, IMO it mostly boils down to a matter of personal taste. Up until the last line of your post I would have said subdirectory, but the last line would cause me, in my decision-making process, to lean toward subdomain with an official-sounding name like submissions.example.com (as opposed to say, links.example.com which in my wacky brain doesn't sound "worthy" of being a subdomain - does that make any sense at all?) What would probably sway me back to subdirectory would be if I were going to set up SSL for payment - I'm too cheap to buy two certificates! Mostly I have to stick with 'personal taste'.
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brucec
msg:3298859 | 6:10 am on Apr 1, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Most people like short URLs. If the subdomain makes the URL shorter, as it usually does, then use a subdomain. Bruce
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bill
msg:3299782 | 8:55 am on Apr 2, 2007 (gmt 0) |
Keep in mind that the search engines will look at subdomains as separate websites.
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