Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'subdomains'

A Google Webmaster Help thread points out an interesting bug of some sort in Google. A webmaster asks about a particular site that seems to have flooded Google with tons and tons of subdomains. Since the site is already "outed,"...

Posted on January 2, 2009 8:15 AM

Last year, we wrote about how Google is to perceive subdomains. Matt Cutts wrote back then that in some circumstances, subdomains will be treated like subfolders. He goes into more detail on his blog. In the post, he explains that...

Posted on December 15, 2008 9:18 AM

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...

Posted on December 7, 2007 7:40 AM

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...

Posted on November 21, 2007 8:51 AM

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...

Posted on January 22, 2007 7:48 AM

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...

Posted on November 6, 2006 7:24 AM