[TriLUG] SEO Question

David Brain dbrain at gmail.com
Thu Aug 30 16:09:19 EDT 2007


The way I've handled this in the past (and it does depend on the
degree of control you have over the outsourced site) is that we setup
apache such that:



On 8/30/07, Matt Pusateri <mpusateri at wickedtrails.com> wrote:
> So our marketing team outsourced one of my companies microsites.  Now
> Marketing wants to add a blog, which I was going to do for them instead
> of paying the outsourcing company to do.  The outsourcing company made
> the argument that the blog for SEO reasons needs to be at
> http://www.example.com/blog  as opposed to me hosting it at
> http://blog.example.com.  Their argument is that google and the like
> will index it better since it's tied to our www hostname.  I think since
> it's all the same domain name so why should it matter.  Now maybe they
> might get slightly more hits, but is it enough to worry about.
>
>
> Matt P.
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