SEO Link Optimization between main site and 2 subdomains?
by Internet Marketing Made Easy on Friday, December 18th, 2009 | 2 Comments
OK, so, I have a main website . Has about 5 pages, only 2 important.
Then I have a storefront as a sub domain. It has about 5 pages as well, only 1 important.
The blog is a blog, gets bigger all the time. Also a sub domain.
I was thinking of placing heavy anchor links within the text of various pages, but I am not sure whether Google treats subdomains as part of the website.
If it does NOT, then what I was planning on will decrease pagerank, but if it does, these are just glorified internal links anyway.
the site is find_any_foreclosure.com (remove the _ )
First of all why would outbound links decrease pagerank?
Google still treats subdomains as part of the website but even if it didn’t you would not lose PR by pointing low quality anchors to a page, you would simply pass on very little iin terms of link popularity.
I have been working with SEO for many years and you cannot give you PR away and you cannot lower the PR of a page by linking to it from low quality domains.
There is only one expception and that is if you have a lot of external links coming from a link farm, this is a site or more correctly a page with 100 or outbound external links. This can have an impact on your page however it is just a theory with no solid evidence or authority.
There is no difference between sub-domains and sub-directory in the domain.
Example:
sub-domain.domain.com
http://www.domain.com/sub-directory
Google treats sub-domains as sub-directories (so they will be treated the same as part of the domain).
Also deploying unnecessary (heavy) anchor text will leave you in troubles rather than giving any advantage.
Always remember
Quality
– Content
– site architecture
– code
– back links
help your website and your business ultimately.