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[PhilipTory]

I have discovered that I can add a subdomain on my web site at no extra cost. I wonder how this might help search engine optimisation.
For example, my web site is www.authorgraphic.co.uk and I am a technical author. If I want to optimise the phrase technical author, would it help if I create http://technical.authorgraphic.co.uk - will G**gle give it a high ranking because the key words are in the domain name (this seems to be the case, generally), or mark it down because I'm diluting the effect of the main site? Or see it as spam?

Ideas anyone?
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Sincerely,

Philip Tory
Authorgraphic Ltd., Technical Writing and Training
Unit 29, King Edwards Avenue, Gloucester GL1 5DD, UK
Tel: 01452 - 500 639
See www.authorgraphic.co.uk and www.technicalwritingcourse.co.uk

[admin]

The top level domain is authorgraphic.co.uk and that is the domain that Google looks at for the website. But you can quite rightly have multiple websites running from canonical domains. And they can be just as effective.

You can even have different IP addresses pointing from the canonical domains. IMO, so as long as the different sites, such as technicalwriting.authorgraphic.com has decent content, I see no problem.

I'd strongly advise against having loads of sub-domains all pointing to similar content - which would cause a problem, which is what I believe you're referring to.

Probably the biggest TLD that has done this is.uk.com which has been resold to loads of different people as a legitimate website domain, although it is technically a sub domain mklink.com is a TLD whereas mklink.uk.com is canonical.

Cheers,
mk