Subdomains VS Subdirectories
For you that host your website on your own domain name, there would be a time when you start thinking about creating a new group of information or simply trying to add a different website to your domain. And since a web-hosting service implements file management system (which involving files and folders), it is a common thing when people simply create a new folder to help them manage their content (and help others to see the differences).
Well, a well-organized web-hosting space is important, and yes creating a new folder to group things up is simply correct. But the way the search engine crawls your website is something that requires more of your consideration.
I landed on Matt Cutts’ explanation about subdomains and subdirectories in Google (read it here), and I learnt one conclusion;
If you’re simply trying to deliver a more-in-depth whatever your domain is talking about, then you can just create a new subdirectory (http://domain.com/folder)
Meanwhile, if you are creating a totally different website with content that doesn’t related to your primary domain name, then go for subdomain (http://subdomain.domain.com)
I found this is useful, because I am involved with numerous websites which sometimes required the right approach.
Shortening Your URL
Recently I’ve been working alot with Google Docs, since I need a simple and secure way to collaborate with my team-workers (and share it online). It’s easier, because I only need to pass the url to my colleagues, instead of sending an email with file attached on it (it consume my time, my bandwith, and my patience).
The only down-side, is that long url they provide for each document. It’s hard to remember, even when my firefox address bar shows recently opened url, I can’t tell which one is which. So I decided that I need a way, to make short url for my links.
Instant Rank Checking
I’ve recently stumbled on this usefull Firefox addons, called SEOQuake. Which is very usefull when I want to check one page’s Google PageRank (and other statistical info).
Why do I need to do so?
Well, it’s a common thing that to gain the pagerank juice, one need to earn backlinks (or inbound links) from other page that has high Page Rank. I’m not telling that a visiting a blog then leaving your comment is merely a way to gain page rank juices, but when it comes to that.. well, this one addons will help.
Not only you will get the information when you open the page, even when you’re still on a Google Result Page, you will see the statistical information for each resulting links. So, happy hunting y’all.
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