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Ie. Is [xyz.widget-paradise.com...] better than using [widget-paradise.com...]
Ted
There is no reason, why google should rank you better or worst, if you have xyz.domain.com or www.domain.com. there is technicaly no difference, www is just widely used, but as google is mainly interested in "what the surfer sees" it should make no difference.
If somebody has experience in that field I would love some feedback about experiences too.
Ted
Looks to me about the same. However, I wouldn't try risking using a bunch of subdomains, say for green, blue, red, etc. widgets where it might be seen as spamming, because Google treats these as separate domains.
How would it be spamming if each subdomain had a different and distinct topic? I was not thinking about mirror pages to put in each sub-directory, where widget-a.html, widget-b.html, widget-c.html each go into multiple subdirectories.
Ted
Be sure to read Marcia`s WebmasterWorld Welcome and Guide to the Basics [webmasterworld.com] post.
independant domains (with independant PR)
While your statement that [domain.tld...] and [xyz.domain.tld...] will have independant PR is right your reasons for stating this are not. PR is a property assigned to individual (as identified by Google) pages. Since [domain.tld...] and [xyz.domain.tld...] will most likely refer to different pages they will each have their own PR. If they did not refer to different page but were mirroring each other instead and Google recognized that then only one URI would be included in the index. That is why I said that PR is a property assigned to individual pages instead of being more precise and saying URI or some such thing.
Andreas
