What Are Subdomains?

Most businesses don’t like to use subdomains because they believe it will be a disadvantage in many areas, such as having a prefix name before your website or being less effective in search engines. So let’s check our facts on subdomains.

First, at a basic level a subdomain is just a folder on your website. A subdomain will have it's name (folder name) placed before the domain name in a web address. Let's look at three examples. A regular web address looks like this:

http://www.example.com

If you have a folder on that domain that named "samples" then the web address to that folder would be:

http://www.example.com/folder/

If you have a subdomain named "samples" then the web address to the subdomain would be:

http://samples.example.com

All subdomains are configured with the: http://subdomain/maindomain.com pattern.

Subdomains rank efficiently well. Search engine are not biased when it comes to the ranking of subdomains and regular domains. In fact, content in a subdomain can rank higher than if that content was not in a subdomain. This is all explained in our eboo, Super SEO Secrets, which is our free gift to you if you choose to host with our featured web host.

Let’s pretend that your site has a lot of categories in it. If you were to submit to a search engine, you could submit each subdomain as its own individual category and still get a good ranking. Each subdomain would be looked at by search engines as a new site with its own index or home page.

So despite the fears of some people, there is nothing wrong with using a subdomain. If you want to develop each subdomain as its own entity, then by all means, do so.