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| Subhead = Subdomains confuse search engines - and people
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| ShortBio = is an independent SEO consultant in Portland, Oregon, and an associate at [[SEOmoz.com|SEOmoz]] in Seattle, Washington.  Michael co-founded TheBigDay honeymoon travel and registry company in 2001, and was responsible for the website and SEO for that company. Prior to that, he was director of technology and innovation at STEP Technology in Portland, and worked on desktop applications, server applications, and websites for clients in the banking, real estate, and transportation industries. Michael has also taught classes in database and Microsoft programming.
 
 
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==Subdomains confuse search engines & searchers==
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Did you know that if you own www.mywebsite.com, you also own:
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* '''blog.mywebsite.com'''
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* '''store.mywebsite.com'''
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* and '''anythingelse.mywebsite.com'''?
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Each of these is a subdomain of mywebsite.com.  You might think – and many web designers do think – that subdomains are a nice way to organize your website.  People often put the company blog on blog.mywebsite.com, the product catalog and shopping cart on store.mywebsite.com, and job listings on career.mywebsite.com.
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Latest revision as of 13:24, 23 January 2014

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Subdomains confuse search engines & searchers

Did you know that if you own www.mywebsite.com, you also own:

  • blog.mywebsite.com
  • store.mywebsite.com
  • and anythingelse.mywebsite.com?

Each of these is a subdomain of mywebsite.com. You might think – and many web designers do think – that subdomains are a nice way to organize your website. People often put the company blog on blog.mywebsite.com, the product catalog and shopping cart on store.mywebsite.com, and job listings on career.mywebsite.com.


Read the rest of this article.

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