The site is an international one and certain issues make an all-countries site cumbersome unless we use different directories.
Okay, it's only one more click, but that can be a diversion or cause confusion as well
One way to handle it would be with short subdomains, i.e. these.wigets.com, those.wigets.com, etc
There are 2 issues I am wondering about
1 - in another thread, one post implied that sub-domains are going to be penalized by the SEs, possibly as policy, possibly because of attempted 302 hijacking fixes
2 - re the 302 redirect issue. Will we be able to use some version of a .htaccess mod rewrite that says "don't go to those non-www pages unless they are "this" or "that"?
We wouldn't mind registering additional domains, but finding them is the problem.
1 - in another thread, one post implied that sub-domains are going to be penalized by the SEs, possibly as policy, possibly because of attempted 302 hijacking fixes
Depend's on the content of the subdomain in question. I haven't seen any problems with keyword.example.tld versus keyword.tld. Infact keyword.example.tld has in my case a higher rank in just about every search engine I checked than keyword.tld.
How about using 301 redirects instead of 302?
2 - re the 302 redirect issue. Will we be able to use some version of a .htaccess mod rewrite that says "don't go to those non-www pages unless they are "this" or "that"?
That's what modrewrite is for ;)
Yes, I know that. The 302 issue I referred to was the Googlejacking issue that a 301 is used in an attempt to mitigate.
But the 301 I'm using now redirects everything that *isn't* a www.mysite.com to a www.mysite.com, so I assume it would redirect this.mysite.com to www.mysite.com, which defeats the virtual domain.
