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.