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Sub Domains To Be Treated As Folders By Google
SEO News Source: http://searchengineland.com
Published: Dec 09, 2007 - 09:14 am
Story Found By: gyutae 1629 Days ago
Category: 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 1629 Days ago #
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Why do I get the feeling that this will apply to everyone BUT Google?

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from incrediblehelp 1629 Days ago #
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I bet your totally right SEF

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from g1smd 1629 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.

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from Halfdeck 1629 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."

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from controltheweb 1628 Days ago #
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Clarification to be coming in WebProNews PubCon video with Matt:http://videos.webpronews.com/tag/pubconMatt 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

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from IncrediBILL 1627 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.

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from davnoel 1627 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.

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from g1smd 1627 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.comhere.co.ukhere.freehost.comhere.freehost.co.ukDoesn’t look like it is a standard number of dots away from the right.

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from SlightlyShadySEO 1627 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..

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from johnandrews 1627 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.

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from MattCutts 1626 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/

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from CustomizedPeelAwayAds 1624 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...See some videos and learn some tricks here  for better SERP:  <a href="http://www.Photo-Facelift.com/web-20-seo">web 2.0 SEO Videos for tricks & tactics</a>Curly.--------- Custom PeelAwayAds --- Add A Peel to Your Site

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