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Sub Domains To Be Treated As Folders By Google

Went Hot: December 9, 2007 - 9:14 am
Posted By: gyutae 576 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google SEO

Matt Cutts informed us that Google will very soon begin treating subdomains and subdirectories the same in this fashion: there will be only 2 total urls from a domain in any set of search results, so no more getting 3, 4 or however many spots via subdomains. We didn't get any more information than just that basic heads-up.

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from searchenginefriend 576 days ago #

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Why do I get the feeling that this will apply to everyone BUT Google?

from incrediblehelp 576 days ago #

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I bet your totally right SEF

from g1smd 575 days ago #

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I think everyone has extrapolated far too much from what was actually said.

Matt has said he will clarify this in the next few weeks.

from Halfdeck 575 days ago #

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Here's what Matt Cutts said on SER regarding this:

"This isn't a correct characterization of what Google is looking at doing. What I was trying to say is that in some circumstances, Google may move closer to treating subdomains as we do with subdirectories. I'll talk about this more at some point after I get back from PubCon."

from controltheweb 575 days ago #

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Clarification to be coming in WebProNews PubCon video with Matt:
http://videos.webpronews.com/tag/pubcon

Matt said that Google will make it HARDER to get that 3rd result in a given search, and then increasingly harder for every result after that.

- Ted Ulle (tedster) http://sphinn.com/story/17696#c21173

from IncrediBILL 574 days ago #

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Lovely, in their efforts to combat spam domains they're going to sabotage services like photo hosting that use subdomains per individual account.

Since when must someone have to pay for a unique domain name just to have a unique location on the internet?

Some ISPs still host sites like "//myisp.com/~useraccount" and those most certainly shouldn't be lumped together either.

Another example of Google trying to dictate how the internet works.

from davnoel 574 days ago #

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Perhaps google will acknowledge popular enough subdomains like a blogspot blog, or flickr account. If this is to be a general rule, then the possibility of the enforcers making exceptions where deserved should not be overlooked.

from g1smd 574 days ago #

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That is the sort of clarification that I am expecting Matt Cutts to talk about.

How do you identify a domain anyway? Is it...

here.com
here.co.uk
here.freehost.com
here.freehost.co.uk

Doesn't look like it is a standard number of dots away from the right.

from SlightlyShadySEO 573 days ago #

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There will be an exceptions list I guess? and I imagine that is where these common second level domains will be. Good bye free web hosting though? A lot of smaller places won't get noticed enough for this exclusion..

from johnandrews 573 days ago #

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@incrediBill I think that's the tragedy here... he didn't say/mean that, but it got reported that way. subdomains don't belong to Google or spam team, but as subdomains present a problem for them, they will address it. And they are already considering addressing it ("in some situations") along the lines of how they address folders.

I think webmasters need to pay more attention to what they are doing and less attention to what reporters are saying Google is saying.

from MattCutts 573 days ago #

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"Why do I get the feeling that this will apply to everyone BUT Google?"

searchenginefriend, the algorithm runs equally for every query; there's no hard-coded special cases.

My clarification is here, in case people are interested: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/

from CustomizedPeelAwayAds 570 days ago #

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Wow. What about sites like about.com who thrive due to subs being treated as powerful as base domain..?
I guess Google needs to do something about all the mass-junk site-creators pumping endless blogs and sites and subs and I guess it's only fair to let others also get a place not only one site dominating full page. However, what with web2.0 tricks even this measure would not help... It's coming out of the box...
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