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Is it wise to have a subdomain with keywords?
Unfortunatly I don't have a domainname with keywords so I made a subdomain. Is this helpful for my PR in Google, I mean.. does google look at the name of the subdomain?
Domain = atp-construct.com
subdomain = casasdemadera.atp-construct.com
keywords = casasdemadera

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If it is advertised or linked it could be useful, but not unless the original domain is ranked pretty decent, the subdomain will just be ignored... PR 7 sites using subdomains usually get them indexed but in my experience, PR 4 and below the SE tend to ignore the subdomain or dont rank it as equally as a domain...

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demonhale wrote: If it is advertised or linked it could be useful, but not unless the original domain is ranked pretty decent, the subdomain will just be ignored... PR 7 sites using subdomains usually get them indexed but in my experience, PR 4 and below the SE tend to ignore the subdomain or dont rank it as equally as a domain...

Demonhale,

Is this fact?

PR 7 sites using subdomains usually get them indexed

I've never heard of this before and I just wanted you to verify this for me, this is very interesting.

Regards

S

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Afaik, subdomains are treated as altogether different domains by the SEs. So I don't think the PR of the main domain would help the subdomain's PR or get it indexed.

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Dont get me wrong but this is based on my experience so mileage may vary... I have setupped subdomains for clients to use as either a marketing ploy or some pages they want exclusive out of the original domain... They spent money to get these subdomains indexed and they got mixed results... although it was conclusive that either the higher the sites PR, or the more the subdomains are anchored in the main sites then it would get indexed like a normal domain... but otherwise, it would take a far more longer time...

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my experience is good. i have many subdomains with keywords and sometimes is the subdomain much better placed as the domain itself. of course, domain and subdomain are different sites with different keywords but it's always worth to create keyword subdomains to target a keyword.

lumi

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Subdomains work just as well as a top level domain. Just look at the search results for some keywords and you will see that there are subdomains in the top 30 now and then

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