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March 5, 2008
The Power of Subdomains
For those looking for a great way to create quality web sites that are extremely cost effective and easy to set up, subdomains are quite possibly your best choice. We all know what a domain is, but many webmasters are not yet familiar with the power and the many benefits of subdomains, here are some tips.
What is a Subdomain?
In order to understand what a subdomain is, first let’s look at a regular domain. Most domains look like the following; www.yoursite.com. Each domain refers to a specific site on the web and the search engines acknowledge each domain as a separate web site. While many domains have several web pages, each extra page is still considered the same site (for instance, www.yoursite.com/baseball). While this is an easy way to add extra pages to your web site, for most web developers that would like to start web pages on new categories (called niches), they usually will purchase a new domain name to create each new niche.
Subdomains make the whole process of adding new niches to a domain easy, affordable and with lots of added value. A subdomain is considered a sub extension of your already working domain. A subdomain is considered to be a separate domain and entity from the domain that it extends from. This means that all search engines (including Google) see the subdomain as a unique domain. Domains are created usually using your web hosting administration panel. In order to create a subdomain, the process usually takes a few minutes. For instance, instead of adding web pages that are on completely different topics to your website such as www.yoursite.com/baseball, you can choose to create a subdomain, which is written as follows: www.baseball.yoursite.com. You might have noticed all we did is add the word “baseball” and a dot before your domain name.
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