Subwebs and Spiders

In Front Page you can create subwebs on the same domain (web.com/subweb).
You can also create then on the server (subweb.web.com). Which is better
from a SEO (or other) perspective? Which is the best choice for publishing
several topics on one domain? I used FP for www.stephenhorrillo.com. Is
there a better way?

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Steve Sobol sjsobol@JustThe.net wrote in <d98166$i0f$1@ratbert.glorb.com>:
> Steve Horrillo wrote:
> > In Front Page you can create subwebs on the same domain (web.com/subweb).
> > You can also create then on the server (subweb.web.com). Which is better
> > from a SEO (or other) perspective?
>
> I'd think that it wouldn't matter, since it's all the same from the point of
> view of the spider making an HTTP connection to blah.com and issuing a GET.
> However, I don't do subwebs on the projects I do where the site is
> FP-enabled, so there are probably others that could answer more
> authoritatively than I.
>

From an SEO perspective both will help if the right keyword is used.
However there is no reason to believe that the algorithms will
consistently favour one over the other. So I'd tend to go for whatever
makes sense in usability terms as the first priority.

If people are likely to aim for the index of the section by going directly
to www.foo.bar.com then it's worth doing it that way. If they will only
ever aim for www.bar.com and then explore other directories then use
www.bar.com/foo/ instead.

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Steve -
Just noticed your sig there - I've no doubt the temperature is high there,
but just for the record how much DOES gas (petrol(?)) cost over there? Here
in the UK we are fast approaching £4.00 per gallon (circa $7.29).

Steve Horrillo wrote:
> In Front Page you can create subwebs on the same domain
> (web.com/subweb). You can also create then on the server
> (subweb.web.com). Which is better from a SEO (or other) perspective?
> Which is the best choice for publishing several topics on one domain?
> I used FP for www.stephenhorrillo.com. Is there a better way?

If you do sub.domain.com make sure to use .htaccess to block the bots from
indexing domain.com/sub or it will be seen as dup content.

On 21-Jun-2005, Big Bill <kruse@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:

> >Sub Domains are an internet convention. Sub Webs are a product specific
> >convention.
> >I'd go with the internet convention. You can treat a sub domain as a full
> >
> >domain within FP.
>
> Jeez, I thought they were the same. Good thing I didn't comment, I
> suppose. Are M'soft trying to take over the web too?

I can apply different themes or web forms to each subwed. I think subfolders
must share the same themes. I started out as having them as subfolders but
all you do is right click and can choose "convert to web."

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Warmest regards,

Steve Horrillo, Realtor / CEO / C.Ht.
http://brokeragenttraining.com (Advanced training for real estate
professionals)
http://over100percent.com (Realtors earn over 100 percent)
http::/hipfsbo.com

Steve Horrillo wrote:
> On 21-Jun-2005, Big Bill <kruse@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> Sub Domains are an internet convention. Sub Webs are a product
>>> specific convention.
>>> I'd go with the internet convention. You can treat a sub domain as
>>> a full
>>>
>>> domain within FP.
>>
>> Jeez, I thought they were the same. Good thing I didn't comment, I
>> suppose. Are M'soft trying to take over the web too?
>
> I can apply different themes or web forms to each subwed. I think
> subfolders must share the same themes. I started out as having them
> as subfolders but all you do is right click and can choose "convert
> to web."
>
> --
> Warmest regards,
>
> Steve Horrillo, Realtor / CEO / C.Ht.
> http://brokeragenttraining.com (Advanced training for real estate
> professionals)
> http://over100percent.com (Realtors earn over 100 percent)
> http::/hipfsbo.com

The FP searchbot also limits it's searches to the subweb it's in - e.g.
won't index the main web, just the sub web. A searchbot in the main web
won't index the sub webs.
There's nothing you gain from having a sub web that you can't do in a sub
domain which is more in line with internet conventions. It will make a
difference with some third party products. I've also had a few problems with
FP subwebs and .net applications that went away when I moved them to sub
domains.

For the end consumer it boils down to either addressing
http://sub.mydomain.com or http://mydomain.com/sub
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