Should the domain strategy for a fairly large firm be to have all
subpages under its main domain or let their subdivisions have their own
domain?
www.example.com/pepper
www.example.com/salt
or
www.example.com
www.example-pepper.com
www.example-salt.com
etc.

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On Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:09:39 +0200, Per-Erik Skramstad
<webmaster@korrekturavdelingen.no> wrote:

>Should the domain strategy for a fairly large firm be to have all
>subpages under its main domain or let their subdivisions have their own
>domain?
>www.example.com/pepper
>www.example.com/salt
>or
>www.example.com
>www.example-pepper.com
>www.example-salt.com
>etc.

I'd go for their own domains, it's a bit more versatile.

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The only thing that I would be worried about is that if you have to
many domains all linking together with the same IP address it could be
viewed unfavorably with the search engines.

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"Per-Erik Skramstad" wrote ...
> Should the domain strategy for a fairly large firm be to have all subpages
> under its main domain or let their subdivisions have their own domain?
> www.example.com/pepper
> www.example.com/salt
> or
> www.example.com
> www.example-pepper.com
> www.example-salt.com

I'd go for the first option, virtually every time.

*You reinforce your brand.
*You concentrate all your marketing on one domain, saving time, design,
effort and money
*All your links come to one domain, with measurable advantage in page rank
and ranking.
*You reduce the risk of duplicate page problems (but internal duplication
must be limited)
*You eliminate 'interlinking' penalties

The only 'normal' exception might be for different language sites, where the
benefits of merging are limited, and there real advantages in local hosting
and local.tld

Andrew
Editor
http://www.seo2seo.com/

__/ [ Andrew Heenan ] on Saturday 19 August 2006 11:55 \__

> "Per-Erik Skramstad" wrote ...
>> Should the domain strategy for a fairly large firm be to have all subpages
>> under its main domain or let their subdivisions have their own domain?
>> www.example.com/pepper
>> www.example.com/salt
>> or
>> www.example.com
>> www.example-pepper.com
>> www.example-salt.com
>
> I'd go for the first option, virtually every time.
>
> *You reinforce your brand.
> *You concentrate all your marketing on one domain, saving time, design,
> effort and money
> *All your links come to one domain, with measurable advantage in page rank
> and ranking.
> *You reduce the risk of duplicate page problems (but internal duplication
> must be limited)
> *You eliminate 'interlinking' penalties
>
> The only 'normal' exception might be for different language sites, where
> the benefits of merging are limited, and there real advantages in local
> hosting and local.tld

Agreed. I struggle to push traffic into newly-erected domains, even if they
fall under the same 'umbrella' (using link structure). There is something
about domain reputation that not only appeals to a human, but is also
perceived favourably from an SEO perspective. I bet the majority of domain
names is associated with subtle scam s(organic sites or parked domains that
are owned by squatters for 'ransom'). This reinforces the importance of
domain 'reputation'.

Per-Erik Skramstad wrote:
> Should the domain strategy for a fairly large firm be to have all
> subpages under its main domain or let their subdivisions have their own
> domain?
> www.example.com/pepper
> www.example.com/salt
> or
> www.example.com
> www.example-pepper.com
> www.example-salt.com
> etc.

What does IBM do? What does Microsoft do? What does Google do?