PageRank on Subdomains

[downloadfreak]

Hey,

I was just wondering about how subdomains affect page rank. I'm sure I have read somewhere that google treats subdomains "name.domain.com" a lot more "better" than just "domain.com/directory/", is this true?

If my main site has a PR of 6 "www.domain.com" and I start "something.domain.com" would this have a PR of 0 or 6? Do subdomains PR affect the main domain or just the actual subdomain?

Hope this is clear, thanks for the help.

 

[photomonkey]

I remember reading somewhere that google treats subdomains as a separate "domain". But it has been at least 1 year since I read that. Things might have changed now.

 

[snoopi]

Are you going to (301) redirect any content from your index (or other pages) to the subdomains? Then subdomains can get PR 6-otherwise no they get a 0. Paulo is right, search engines treat subdomains like completely different domains than your domain.com.

I am also interested to hear other opinions on this matter. Thanks Jack for bringing it up

 

[downloadfreak]

Are you going to (301) redirect any content from your index (or other pages) to the subdomains? Then subdomains can get PR 6-otherwise no they get a 0. Paulo is right, search engines treat subdomains like completely different domains than your domain.com.

I am also interested to hear other opinions on this matter. Thanks Jack for bringing it up

Basically I want sub domains for main sections of my site, an example: freetemplates.zymic.com, this will not redirect to zymic.com/freetemplates/ it will simply be a whole new subdomain and not a redirect, I have a feeling that google would treat this as a PR0 however surely linking the subdomain from the main site URL which is PR6 should make the PR go up fairly quickly.

 

[leviathon]

Subdomains are a sub as in a smaller "large part" of a site. Such as Google News being news.google.com and it may have news.google.com/xxxxxxxxx etc.

So basically it's another domain but in the same subject as the base domain

 

[downloadfreak]

Subdomains are a sub as in a smaller "large part" of a site. Such as Google News being news.google.com and it may have news.google.com/xxxxxxxxx etc.

So basically it's another domain but in the same subject as the base domain

whats that got to do with my question?

 

[tipsfromthetop]

Yep subdomains are treated differently to the main domains a very visible example is Blogging!!

lets say namepros.blog.com is a blog well that will have a totally different PR to the main blog.com

The only attachable benefit to answer your main point to a sub domain is that it will have backlinks etc to your main domain site. So if you need a subdomain i would personally treat that with all the respect you do with your main one.

This is my view others may disagree

 

[hdgamer]

don't worry about sub-domains as much as actual domains. They do not get factored into the algorithms as much as actual domains do.