Subdomains In Online Marketing Strategy

Few people are aware that Search Engines treat Subdomains as separate, independent domains.

So, to give an example, the main domain www.oneworldtechnologies.com, and Sub-domain, memoryflex.oneworldtechnologies.com are two different domains for Search Engines.

Just like the example above, you may create an entirely new website through Sub-domains and as mentioned above, they are treated as independent domains by Google and others anyway.

Subdomains are easily created through your hosting control panel by prefixing any name of a product or service before the main domain. For example, webdesign.oneworldtechnologies.com, appdevelopment.oneworldtechnologies.com, and so on.

These are free to create and offer excellent opportunities to form online marketing strategies.

Since you may create up to 100 subdomains over the main domain, this implies that you may use one domain to create up to 100 websites – big or small – via subdomains.

This has many important implications for your Internet marketing strategies, a few of which we will discuss below.

Content Infusion

Subdomains are a great way to attach large content on a single theme with your website. For example, if you have content on online marketing then it is a smart move to create a subdomain and post that content in the shape of a small, informative website on the topic of online marketing.

Even if this website grows over a period of time there is no harm since Search Engines would treat it as an independent website anyway.

SEO Ranking Improvement

Subdomains have a good impact on your website ranking for two reasons.

One, since Search Engines treat your subdomain website as an independent web address, unrelated to your main domain, any search on the web users’ part that brings your website into the search listings will also bring the subdomains alongside. This will push the visibility of your competition down.

Two, a subdomain website serving content on a special topic will enhance your main website’s credibility, seriousness, and also legitimacy in some ways.

However, make sure that subdomains always serve content that is related to the theme of your main website.

For example, www.oneworldtechnologies.com is an IT company providing services in Web Design, Web Development, Mobile Application Development, and Digital Marketing.

Therefore, it would be good to have subdomains based on any of the above topics but not on totally unrelated topics like Gardening, Pets, etc.

Backlinks

When your URL appears on another website under a different domain, it is called a Backlink.

The more backlinks a website has, the more Search Engines deem it popular. Since search engine ranking is directly proportional to the popularity of a website, backlinks are great contributors to your website’s ranking.

Now, subdomains are independent web addresses as explained above plus you also own them. You are therefore free to add backlinks to your main domain within the content posted on your subdomains.

Backlinks, also known as incoming links, are highly valued by search engines and should play a major role in your SEO strategy.

Budget

You pay for registering a domain, whereas you may create up to 100 subdomains on a single domain for free (Many Web hosting companies provide only a set number of free subdomains – be sure to inquire whether subdomains are included with your domain name registration)

Instead of paying domain name registration fees for a new website, create a website subdomain with a unique design and content.

Your Brand

Subdomains are Web addresses built around your business’s main website. This increases visitors’ sense of familiarity and trust, which helps you support your brand.

If your website is large enough to break down into sections then subdomains ensure visitors know that these sections are part of a single website.

And yet a subdomain is an independent URL from a Search engine’s perspective.

This benefits your brand tremendously since you can adopt a different online advertising and marketing strategy for each subdomain.