Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'subdomains'

Google to Begin Treating Subdomains as Folders: Max 2 Results Per Search

WebmasterWorld administrator tedster has informed us that Google will be treating subdomains like they treat folders on a site. In short, he said, Matt Cutts said Google will roll out in a few weeks a new filter to make sure...

What's the Difference Between a Subdomain and Domain?

How do search engines handle subdomains in terms of SEO? We've covered this before, but this question comes up every so often and occasionally these things change. On WebmasterWorld, tedster provides a rather interesting perspective about subdomains. I think the...

Google Seeing Sub Domains As Part Of Main Domain? Site Command Change

Vicyankees posted a WebmasterWorld thread that explains that when searching with a site command at Google, using site:www.domain.com, Google now returns results that may be sub domains. For example, when I conduct a site search for site:www.seroundtable.com I see in...

Subdomains & The SEO Benefit in Google, Yahoo, & MSN

A relatively old thread at Search Engine Watch Forums discusses what the benefits of subdomains are in terms of SEO. There are many examples given, including that subdomains are often considered separate sites by Google and the other engines. That...


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