08-04-2006, 01:32 PM
llegent Wrote:emm...let's me try to summarize this :-
1. For expansion and branding of original site :- Use Folder
2. For marketing and new section :- Sub-domain
Am I capturing these correctly??
So if I were to use folder, then this folder's pages wil not be able to gain higher google PR than the main index page of the said site?? How could it be able to contribute to the main site then??
It's the other way around from what I think you understood: if you get PR on a page in a folder, your main site will get added PR; if you get PR on a subdomain, your main site will not get PR (google does not consider the two to be related).
llegent Wrote:wouldn't it be better to set a new sub-domain?? as googe treat it as new site, and it could possibly gain higher PR than original site. Thus could potentially contribute to the main site's PR isn't it??:confused:
Page Rank is additive. You get high PR by adding the value of all the links pointing to your site. So if you want to contribute to your main site's PR, you should get as many links going to your main site, and not anywhere else. If you start a new subdomain, which is considered to be a new site by Google and hence has PR0, you are basically starting at the beginning all over again. Even if you link to your main site from the subdomain, you will still get less PR than if you just get the links go directly to your main site.