Domain effects on SEO

domain vs directory

[anks106]

Will it hurt my SE rankings if instead of a new domain for each site, each site is a directory or a subdomain off a single primary domain? Also, if i was to chose this route, which would be more reccomended, directory or subdomain?

example - Internetmall.com (this is already taken, and not by me.. its just an example).

Then lets say i do mondera and make Internetmall.com/diamonds and for overstock make Internetmall.com/OfficeSupplies.

Would this be any worse than say Diamonds-For-Sale.com or OfficeSupplies-4-Cheap.com? Both in terms of Search Engine Rankings and how u as a person feel about looking at those urls?

[Webwork]

Fella, you ask really BIG SWEEPING questions for which there is no simple answer.

There's a famous post here at WW with a heading something like "12 months to having a nicely performing/ranking website". I believe Mr. Tabke is the author. Check the WW library.

[jimbeetle]

That is a sweeping question.

Brett's search engine theme pyramids [searchengineworld.com] might also give you some insight.