I'm doing 2 totally different activities under one name and I would like to create a website for both under one domain name. For example, the website will be example.com. How should I arrange it better:   activity1.example.com and activity2.example.com?   OR   example.com/activity1 and example.com/activity2?   What do you think is better. I would choose the solution #1, but regarding the SEO and other practices which would be better?
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I recently moved from having a main site like www.example.com with a subdomain associated site yyy.example.com, to moving everything off the subdomain to a subdirectory like www.example.com/yyy/, with the same hierarchy underneath the subdirectory, and now yyy.example.com is just a redirect page to the subdirectory, so yyy.example.com/abc/page-x is redirected to www.example.com/yyy/abc/page-x and so on.  The effect has been that the traffic increased by several times (the total page views are more than ten times at the present rate) what it was to the yyy subdomain. Previously almost all of the traffic to the yyy subdomain was from the www site. This is from monitoring the old yyy site for a year or more.  I'm curious to know if there's any research or results which would indicate whether this is universal (subdirectories beat subdomains) or "just me".
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A search for domains like mysite.com provides thousands of results on  and hundreds on . I sampled some. Each and every one I checked was a post by someone ignorant about ,  and , as defined in . Other "natural examples" domains are abused pretty much too.  My request is - disallow these:   mysite.TLD site.TLD abc.TLD xyz.TLD [one letter repeated].TLD   When they are detected, propose  or . With old questions, use robot or find other way to edit them.    Even if SEO is not a problem, professional sites about Internet and associated technologies should not ignore RFC on such a large scale. Not to mention linking porn like about thousand links to xxx.com - I was already detected as one who visits "sites related to content forbidden here" by a firewall or two thanks to that.  I can assure you: you don't want to explain to your boss why are you searching for "adult content" in working hours, or agrotourism farm owner why that happens under his roof. Even WSODs are not nice. Now I think I have SE whitelisted, but anyway... Sadly, firewall was right, I did have xxx.com mentioned in my search results here and on Drupal Answers.
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I am looking to create a system which on signup will create a subdomain on my website for the users account area.   e.g. johndoe.website.com  I think it would be something to do with the .htaccess file and possibly redirecting to another location on the website? I don't actually know. But any information to start me off would be greatly appreciated.  Creating a sign up area is not the problem - I have done this many a time. I am just unsure where to start with the subdomain.
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We have a website that has two URLs (one for the US side and another for the Canadian side which is then broken into Canadian English and Canadian French). For the purposes of my question,  I will write as:   www.us_url.com (US) www.canada_url.ca/ca_en/ (Canadian English) www.canada_url.ca/ca_fr/ (Canadian French)   To make sure people are on the correct site, what do I do if they go to the US URL with Canadian English content (e.g. www.us_url.com/ca_en/canada.asp) but I want to make sure the URL is the Canadian one (e.g. www.canada_url.ca/ca_en/canada.asp) so it shows up properly in Google Analytics.  We're using IIS 7 and classic ASP.
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I have the following domains/subdomains. They are all related to each other, yet they must be on different domains/subdomains  example.com  www.example.com (redirects to example.com)  sub1.example.com  sub2.example.com  example.net  www.example.net (redirects to example.net)  sub1.example.net  sub2.example.net   I would like to have a single WordPress installation for all the above (i.e., end up with a single DB). I do understand that I can setup a multisite installation if I have a single domain with subdomains. But for the above, this would mean I end up with TWO multisite installations (one for example.com, and another for example.net).   Is it possible to setup a single multisite installation with a single database allowing more than one main domain as shown above? If so, how?  Thanks.
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How do I create subdomain like  ? Do i have to access htaccess somehow? Is it actually simply possible to create it via pure php code or I need to use some external script-server side language?  To those who answered: Well, then, should i ask my hosting if they provide some sort of DNS access??
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I have an two wordpress sites that I would like to host on the same domain. One is already up and running, the other is sitting in waiting.  Can I get the second as a subdomain, or simple within a folder, to run on the same domain (different DB) without converting to multisite?
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I have to choose between my keyword + an uncommon TLD and my keyword with a prefix/suffix + .com. In general, is there a difference for SEO? I think some TLDs like .co are confirmed to rank lower.  For example, if my target keyword is example, is example.info or the-example.com better?
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Please explain which is the best URL structure and why:  website.com/apartments-to-let/manhattan   or  website.com/apartments-to-let-manhattan   This is a property site. Is it best for the bots to break the properties/URL's down in categories?
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I have two domains (.com and .co.uk) with different websites. In .co.uk domain I have a good ranking and my idea is to redirect the .co.uk domain to .com. I think I have to use 301 redirect.  My questions is, I have two different websites, the two websites are different but with the same categories and some products, I have to create only one redirect of home to home or a should create other pages like similar products, categories and other similar pages in both sites?  The created backlinks usually goes to homepage, so I thought I just needed to redirect the homepage.  I don't want to lose the ranking and have problems with Google crawl.
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Is it possible to set a CNAME record at the top of a domain? (i.e. @ CNAME www, @ CNAME foobar.com., etc.)  My ISP says that it's only possible to use CNAME's for subdomains but I've read somewhere else that is should be possible even if not recommended.
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Imagine my competitor is getting 1000s of views a day and is established in Google search engine.  I plan to launch my website in a weeks time but will have to work hard to get into google search results  If my competitor has the domain www.example.com , can I buy the domain www.example.co.uk and then redirect that to my website?  I figure some people may accidentally put .co.uk instead of .com  Would this me illegal in any way , or is it fair game as they haven't bought the domain, meaning I could possibly look to selling it to them?
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I am considering registering a domain name in nameoverflow.com format.  Would doing so violate the trademark of /Stack Overflow Internet Services?  I ask because "overflow" can be a generic word.  I will not use Stack Overflow-like design on my domain, nor will my site be a Stack Exchange site.
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I've noticed .com is the standard top-level domain, but when should I not use .com? What are the most common alternatives? If someone has foo.com registered, should I choose a different domain or register foo.somethingelse?
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So me and my friend created and funded a website for a business venture. However due to some complications I no longer want to be part of the venture. My friend on the other hand will not remove my name from the website so I want to contact the host to force my friend to remove my name. The problem is my friend is the technical one and set things up so I have no idea who the host is, and every host finding tool has come up with nothing. I eventually used webhostinghero.com and they it said the domain is being hosted by 8 providers prntscr.com/nnb0he  I have two questions.   Is webhostinghero.com reliable? Is it possible to link multiple providers to one domain to mislead people? (I highly doubt my friend is willing to spend money on 8 hosting providers for one website so he must be using some service to protect the name of the host)
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Many articles about subdomain vs subfolders report that subdomains can help with the domain authority of the parent domain and vice versa (I am assuming one owns both domain names). Yet, I cannot find confirmation of this.  It seems like every articles is repeating what other articles are saying. Anyone has hard evidence to share supporting this claim? Or is it just a myth? My understanding is that a subdomain is treated separately from the parent domain, even if you own both domain names.
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We are currently planning on registering multiple domains for different parts of the website we own. For example consider that we have example.com as the main domain and have assigned all the sub-departments their own subdomain.    There will be tutorials.example.com, videos.example.com, articles.example.com, etc.  Now for marketing reasons we plan to register examplevids.com, exampletuts.com, etc.    The catch here is all these domains should somehow point to their respective subdomains. We can either use a permanent redirect or have and iframe to display the content directly from the subdomains.   Which approach is better considering SEO?  Will using iframes be considered replicating content by search engines? Or is it at all wise to have different domains?