Comments on: Sell Locally, Blog Globally http://www.seopscentre.com/seo/sell-locally-blog-globally/ Learning By Doing Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:39:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Ken Jones http://www.seopscentre.com/seo/sell-locally-blog-globally/#comment-174 Ken Jones Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:08:34 +0000 http://www.seopscentre.com/?p=36#comment-174 Jeremy, thanks for the comment, glad to know you've been reading and enjoying my blog. Matt's post was actually one that I referred back to when I made the choice to go with a subdomain for the site. The big takeaway I took from it was from the comments, where it became clearer that for blogs and smaller sites there's relatively little difference between either structure, but that a subdomain seems to make it easier to manage the locally focussed UK main site, while still opening up the blog's subdomain for international searches. I get Matt's point about a /subdirectory being easier in a lot of cases for file management purposes, but in this particular case segmenting the blog from the main site actually makes it easier for us to control the seperate work being done on each. Hope that makes sense. (The potential for "host-crowding" and getting extra SERP placements above the YouTube videos etc for searches for the company's name is just a tiny added bonus which is unlikely to make too great a difference for the time being anyway ;-) ) Jeremy, thanks for the comment, glad to know you’ve been reading and enjoying my blog.

Matt’s post was actually one that I referred back to when I made the choice to go with a subdomain for the site. The big takeaway I took from it was from the comments, where it became clearer that for blogs and smaller sites there’s relatively little difference between either structure, but that a subdomain seems to make it easier to manage the locally focussed UK main site, while still opening up the blog’s subdomain for international searches.
I get Matt’s point about a /subdirectory being easier in a lot of cases for file management purposes, but in this particular case segmenting the blog from the main site actually makes it easier for us to control the seperate work being done on each. Hope that makes sense.
(The potential for “host-crowding” and getting extra SERP placements above the YouTube videos etc for searches for the company’s name is just a tiny added bonus which is unlikely to make too great a difference for the time being anyway ;-) )

]]> By: Jeremy Quinn http://www.seopscentre.com/seo/sell-locally-blog-globally/#comment-173 Jeremy Quinn Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:09:16 +0000 http://www.seopscentre.com/?p=36#comment-173 Ken, great blog, been reading since the start. In my opinion it would be wise to use a subdirectory for the blog in this instance instead of a subdomain. Please reference http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/ Ken, great blog, been reading since the start. In my opinion it would be wise to use a subdirectory for the blog in this instance instead of a subdomain.

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http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/

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