Using Sub Domain Names with Google

Whats best?

[SEO_France]

I have a question and we dont have the answer :

if we are working on a competitive topic like business plan,
we have two options :

Customer's main site is www.customer.com

Option 1 :

create [business-plan-customer.com...]

OPtion 2 :

create [business-plan-customer.com...] and open a different hosting account and make it a separate site

Whats more useful to get top position?

Thanks ;-)

[rfgdxm1]

You want to put different content with the www? This sounds clueless and will confuse site users.

[SEO_France]

Sorry I did not get it!
What do you mean by adding content to the www?
Which www. are u referring to?

The root or the www.business-plan-customer.com

Merci

[rfgdxm1]

If www.customer.com is site 1, then [business-plan-customer.com...] is not a subdomain, but a new domain.

[fathom]

...and to clarify rfgdxm1 a little more

www.business-plan.customer.com is a sub domain of www.customer.com which is simply a directory accessed externally.

http://

and [www....]

are realy the same thing.

[SEO_France]

This domain name is a brand new name with a separaye hosting account and will be a mini site dedicated to business plan.

To my knowledge, www.business-plan.customer.com is NOT a sub domain of www.customer.com.

http://

and [www....]

are realy the same thing.

is my english good enough? ;-))

thanks for your time

[rfgdxm1]

http://

and [www....]

are realy the same thing.

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Nope. It is in fact quite easy to have totally different content on both, and on rare cases I have seen this. It is a weird thing to do, buth there are some weidos out there. ;)

[fathom]

Nope. It is in fact quite easy to have totally different content on both

Agree... technologically speaking... from a market view as you previously indicated would be very confusing... which this thread already is?

[fathom]

As to your original question SEO_France

Whats more useful to get top position?

Either or... there is no difference at least from a performance perspective.

[hetzeld]

Fathom,

> www.business-plan.customer.com is a sub domain of www.customer.com which is simply a directory accessed externally.

Sorry but I don't agree with you. ;)

In this example, customer.com is the main domain
www.customer.com ,
business-plan.customer.com ,
www.business-plan.customer.com ,
or whatever.customer.com are all sub-domains of customer.com

Dan

[hetzeld]

SEO_France,

http:// and [www...] are two totally different things.
They - could - point to the same content, depending on your domain's configuration and aliases.

Usually - but not always - www.domain.com is defined as an alias to domain.com but it could be defined as a virtual host pointing anywhere else.
This alias is the way my main domain is configured, but there's nothing mandatory in that configuration.

www is simply a sub-domain like any other subdomain.

Dan

PS: your english is as good (or as bad) as mine ;)

[fathom]

Good hetzeld - we agree ;)

[SEO_France]

Thanks to all §

[Marcia]

I'd forget the www for a subdomain; some people type it in with, some without. And I've seen the www misused. Simpler and clearer would be

[example.com...] for the main site (with it set up to go there with or without the www) and

[business-plan.example.com...] for the subdomain.

You generally don't see the www with subdomains.