Subdomains...

[SamerK]

So, is it worth creating them for the purpose of getting more traffic? or should i avoid it. I want hav much content for the subdomain so mostly for SEO if indeed it benefits.



Also, i want to make my site in spanish. is it better to do a subdomain a folder containing spanish files or all on the root but file names i add say _es.html ?

 

[-NC-]

I've not heard of seo benefits of subdomains, but regarding internationalization (language sites), a common way of doing this is sub folders e.g.

site.com/en/
site.com/de/
site.com/es/

 

[Interneteca]

I prefer, and I think ta¡hat´s better for Search engine optimization, to do this:

en.site.com/
es.site.com/
fr.site.com/
de.site.com/

I think that helps search engines to identificate correctly the language of each site.

 

[SamerK]

maybe thats best. and it wil be seen as a different sight

 

[monaco]

Using subdomains is harder tho if you don't intend upon keeping several versions of the whole site...instead using something like mod_rewrite to specify the language to each page...I personally prefer the /language/ method.

 

[Saige]

^I agree. Try to read this article: http://www.isedb.com/db/articles/1424/
It may help you decide...

 

[selfpleasured]

I prefer, and I think ta¡hat´s better for Search engine optimization, to do this:

en.site.com/
es.site.com/
fr.site.com/
de.site.com/

I think that helps search engines to identificate correctly the language of each site.

This is the Best way for sub-domains quite often the search engines/portals will in fact take this as a totally new domain unto its self , meaning it will often take it as a totally new domain and not simply a sub domain off the root

 

[SamerK]

better figure out which i want to use thanks for everyones input!