keyword.website.com or website.com/keyword

subdomains

[helohelo]

they ever asked question...
I read tru this forum and this questions is answered many times but they seem all old (2002) answers.
There are arguments pro and cont:

keyword.website.com
pro: pr goes to subkeyworddomain instantley when link from 'mother'

website.com/keyword.html
conts: pr is lowered with one for the keywordpage or dir

keyword.website.com is seen as apart domain wich can get own dir listings but have to build own pr?

when interlinking to much subdomains like keyword.website.com on 1 ip adress they can get punished...

as you can see its all fuzzy to me right now. What is your opinion anno 2004?

[helohelo]

anyone?

[jo1ene]

when interlinking to much subdomains like keyword.website.com on 1 ip adress they can get punished...

Somebody a while ago used the example of about.com. They use subdomains extensively and don't appear to be penalized.

I believe if you have a very large or deep site, subdomains would be better. I don't use them so I can't swear to it. But I think the about.com example is a good one.

Subdirectories would be better for a smaller site, perhaps?

[helohelo]

ok,
but when you have a 300 page site and you put every page on a subdomain.domian.com page.
Will that be called spam?

[Netizen]

The transfer of PR from the parent page to either keyword.domain.com or domain.com/keyword.html would be identical.

Which is easier for a user of the site?

Stick to that.

[jo1ene]

but when you have a 300 page site and you put every page on a subdomain.domian.com page.

Of course not. I was saying something like:

categoryname.domainname.com/categoryname/page1.html

as opposed to:

www.domainname.com/categoryname/subcategoryname/page.html

But Netizen just informed us that PR gets split up either way. So I don't suppose it matters. It may be easier, for you anyway, to organize with subdomains so that you categories would have to go as deep. Just a thought...

[mars9820]

The only benefit you have is that you get more than 2 spots in the SERPS when you use sub domains.

The rest is all the same.

On the other hand I don't know if you will get a interlinking penalty on the longrun since you probably will create a umbrella of sites all heavily linking to eachother.

[adfree]

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What was your question again?

;-)

[ThomasB]

adfree, do you think G has to care about rankings? :)

[helohelo]

The only benefit you have is that you get more than 2 spots in the SERPS when you use sub domains.

each subdomain gets his own spot? sorry, please explain. will
website.com/keyword.html not be ranked or you mena ctched under "simular" pages?

And yes Ima looking for this out of serp ways but alos usability

[helohelo]

This tread is so far only about PR and LP.

And what about keywords?
will the url
keyword.website.com
scores better on keyword prominance then
website.com/keyword.html
do Google find keywords in the mean domain name and the subdomain name more importent then directory and subpage url keywords?

[jo1ene]

I would think that

keyword.domainname.com/keyword.html

would be better.

[mars9820]

helohelo

Every domain has maximum 2 slots in the SERPS (for example you have #1 and #2 position).

If there are more than 2 pages in 1 domain it will show a line : [ More results from www.webmasterworld.com ]

A subdomain is treated as it's own domain. And will as well have 2 available positions in the SERPS.

Of course this may sound nice for you but the average user will not like it if you claim the whole first page of the SERPS and they always end up with your site.

If you really want to dominate the total top 10 it is much better to have say 8 different domains and write original content for every single domain and give them their own identity.