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Now I'll get right to it.
I have one website that I've had since around 2000 or so. I get unlimited subdomains so rather than pay for additional hosting, I typically register a new site as a subdomain (I own the domain tho), and then in the index file for the main site, just forward you to the appropriate folder. For example, if I had www.example.com - it would hit my main site and then you'd get directed to www.example.com/newsite. It's an alias.
For the end user, they don't really know the difference, it all looks the same.
Will Google know the difference? Would it be wiser to pony up the 20 bucks a month to pay for one-site-only hosting?
I have had an adsense account for a long time but never took care of it or farmed it, I maybe have 30 bucks or so sitting in there at the moment.
Would it be wise to start a new account? I don't really need the current ads that I have and can kill those if necessary.
Thanks for any help. If cutting corners like this can hurt my earnings, I'm not opposed to paying a few bucks and doing it the right way.
[edited by: martinibuster at 7:13 pm (utc) on Mar. 21, 2006]
[edit reason] Removed URL & Examplified example URLs. [/edit]
Once you have one AdSense account, you can put the code on any site. No matter how many sites you own, whether it be 1 or 100, you'll still use the same AdSense account. Imagine the password nightmares for people with 10+ sites if it didn't work this way!
From a search engine standpoint, subdomains act as new sites. Folders off of the main domain do not count as a new site. So "http://new.site.com" would be counted as a new site and "http://site.com/new" would count as a part of site.com. That is all to my understanding at least.
