Hi to all

should I create sub domain or sub directories ? which is preferable to achieve good visibility in search engine ?

Both, either, it doesn't matter.


How you layout YOUR website is not a concern of Google's

Originally Posted by rohnsmith

should I create sub domain or sub directories ? which is preferable to achieve good visibility in search engine ?

It depends on the content. You wouldn't want to put off-topic content in a sub-directory of your hosted website with a top level domain.

Create a new website, by creating a sub-domain and make your own niche for it.

You wouldn't want to put off-topic content in a sub-directory of your hosted website with a top level domain.

Why not?

I prefer the subdirectories, to seize the pagerank of the domain

Originally Posted by maniako

I prefer the subdirectories, to seize the pagerank of the domain

PageRank (Real and SGB) is passed by how you LINK to a page NOT where it is positioned in the infrastructure.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

PageRank (Real and SGB) is passed by how you LINK to a page NOT where it is positioned in the infrastructure.

Pagerank is very easily distributed among the sub directories where as it needs the same work as for your main domain for your SubDomains when you want PageRank on them

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Why not?

You should create one niche, making it easier to get a higher SERP once you've optimized your website for Google or other search engines.

Example : You created a gaming niche website ( main content is gaming / optimized the website for popular gaming keywords ) , but you've published a health related article ( which is off-topic ) with high competition keywords and you're expecting to get a good SERP for those keywords.

Edit : Above example is what shouldn't be done,

You should create one niche, making it easier to get a higher SERP once you've optimized your website for Google or other search engines.

Nope. Search engines don't rank sites, they rank PAGES

Every single page or index page of a directory could be on a seperate topic and it would not matter in the slightest for search engines.

The PAGE content and the links pointing to a PAGE are what matter to search engines.

But if what you are suggesting is true, it means that every directory, every article site, and just about every ecommerce website in existence is completely useless for gaining "link value" or "PR".

You created a gaming niche website ( main content is gaming / optimized the website for popular gaming keywords )

BTW here again it is PAGES that are optimised NOT sites.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Nope. Search engines don't rank sites, they rank PAGES

I said site, because there are other directories which contains pages with content. ( didn't know that I had to say all of that in-detail in my post, lol )

Originally Posted by chrishirst

But if what you are suggesting is true, it means that every directory, every article site, and just about every ecommerce website in existence is completely useless for gaining "link value" or "PR".

I never said that they wouldn't rank. But, it's about the competition.

If an article site ( with various niche articles ) published an article with a few keywords and I build a website with the same niche & keywords as the article that was published on the article website, I can easily rank my page higher than the one from the article website.

^ That is what I was trying to say,

I can easily rank my page higher than the one from the article website.

That's simply because you would PROMOTE the page on your site by getting links to it, whereas the page on the article site will be left to it's own devices with no promotion whatsoever done for it.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

That's simply because you would PROMOTE the page on your site by getting links to it, whereas the page on the article site will be left to it's own devices with no promotion whatsoever done for it.

That's why most article websites don't get a high SERP for competitive keywords. ( only low competitive keywords )

Ezinearticles.com is showing authority because of it's niche as a 'various niche' article website. So, the pages will get a higher SERP than most other websites.

But, if a website isn't an article website, but a normal website with four topics, eg. gaming, sex, health & technology. ( four different directories about four unrelated topics )

Example :

Title : All the gaming, sex, health and technology you can have
Description : Read my gaming reviews, sex reviews, health reviews and technology reviews
Content : Same keywords inserted

Would you recommend this idea to someone?

It can be done, but the website might not show that much authority for its niche to its users or search engines.

Title : All the gaming, sex, health and technology you can have
Description : Read my gaming reviews, sex reviews, health reviews and technology reviews
Content : Same keywords inserted

No because each PAGE is independent entitiy that can target three or four words.

Only the idiots who pretend to know what they are talking about try to jam all the "most improtent keywrods" into one page.

You all seem to have these fixed idea of "niche" without knowing what a "niche" actually is.

How on earth does Amazon manage to get hundreds of thousands of completely independent pages in the SERPs for all manner of search phrases, the same with eBay.
When will you ALL wake up and actually LOOK around at all the examples that disprove these dumb theories.

And please don't drag out the old "authority" drivel, authority is based on links and anchor text, and ANY page on ANY site can be an "authority" for any given word or phrase.

The whole dumb idea of "niche" websites stems from the short-sighted stupidity of only getting links for the "home" page and expecting every page to get value from that.
Every page can be a "niche"!

Oh! Well that's some pretty good information to know.

I learned that to build up an authority website, you have to make a niche by promoting using anchored text and links on other websites with the same niche.

I did not know that every page can be a whole different niche. I thought that you had to create a whole new website.

Thanks for the information.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

The whole dumb idea of "niche" websites stems from the short-sighted stupidity of only getting links for the "home" page and expecting every page to get value from that.
Every page can be a "niche"!

The trouble is most of that "information" comes from people who are firmly entrenched in how things were ten or twelve years ago and that was usually based on long dead search engines.

In the past six years alone there has been three major changes to Google that changed the entire way that their ranking algorithm worked.
Anchor text has reduced in it's importance and "link bombing" is far more difficult.

The "experts" however remain resolute in their historical ramblings and fail completely to actually observe the happenings of recent times.

you are right chrishirst