Total n00b quesion here...have mercy.

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I'm trying to get a handle on the concept of subdomains. Lets say my main domain is Web Site Development by Kurt Allen Weiss (It not,btw) and the main page's products are geared towards ...cat toilets and then I decide I want to sale sky diving equipment too, so I make the subdomain skydivingequipment.Ihavetohaveit.com . (or is it Ihavetohaveit.com/skydivingequpment? )My question is, for the user, are the two pages connected? I mean I don't want people arriving on my page looking for skydiving equipment and then clicking a link to a page and finding cat toilets.

Again, sorry for the laaaaame question.
 


I would say it depends on how n00bish your target visitor is. If you are targeting total n00bs (like selling cat toilets), it will probably be fine. But for anyone who knows something about the internet it might look unprofessional (why not just get a new domain for it?). Also, how would they 'click a link' to go from skydiving equipment to cat toilets unless you put it there?
 
Dude, a .info name is about $2 and a .com is about $6

Why bother fucking around with subdomains?
 
Rob_TID said:
Dude, a .info name is about $2 and a .com is about $6

Why bother fucking around with subdomains?
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Good point. Except, shouldn't you put all your domains under one host? and isn't there usually a transfer fee? ( i know it's only like 15, but that adds up if you are doing a bunch)
 
The reason you have the subdomain.domain.com and domain.com/subdomain is because it creates a directory(domain.com/subdomain), and then links the subdomain to that directory.

I would suggest using subdomains if you're doing automated site creation stuff, but otherwise a TLD is a must for SEO (keywords in the name do help a little)
 
selling diving equipment on a cat toilet site doesn't make any sense, if you want to sell any kind of product just get a generic name and put everything in folders or subdomains

regarding the tecnical aspect of a subdomain it just creates a directory that is served both from the real directory than from the subdomain

say you create the subdomain golfballs.yoursite.com
you'll have a directory called golfballs (or any name you want) under your root directory, and your visitors will be able to see its content both from golfballs.yoursite.com and yoursite.com/golfballs/
 
It sounds like turbolapp wants to build a retail site that sells many different items, and then break it up by categories or related items with subdomains. That makes perfect sense. If you are branding "whatever.com" then you don't want a ton of new domains that don't support that branding. You be better off with "cat-toys.whatever.com". Think of Sears, big store many different items, they sell tools and lingerie in the same store. So, wouldn't "tools.sears.com" and "lingerie.sears.com" make more sense than "tools-sears.com" and "lingerie-sears.com"?

Just my thoughts.
 
That's what I'm screaming, Mike. I have a domain name that I haven't really done anything with yet and it's very generic. I figure I should take advantage of the very fact that it is generic...I just wanted to bounce it off you guys and see If I was missing something.

thanks ya'll. (yes. Texas. remember?)
 
SEO_Mike is right. Subdomains are the way to go to separate-out different categories of products. If you lumped them all together as subdirectories of a single domain, branding would be a problem. If you get separate domain names, it's a pain setting them up and keeping track of them.

Note that for Google, sub1.domain.com is a different website to sub2.domain.com, and you will have to do multiple promotions regarding getting backlinks.

Also, directories tend to be sniffy about sub-domains.

On the plus side, you can have as many separate websites as you like running off the one domain: nice!
 
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