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Hi everybody,

Don't know if i'm at the right address for this question?

Does anybody know a trick of software to create subdomains for the categories? Example if I have www.mysite.com/links1 I want to have a subdomain links1.mysite.com and for www.mysite.com/links2 => links2.mysite.com etc...

Thanks,
Ron
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Re: [rsahertian] subdomain In reply to
Here's a quick solution:

http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/4395.html
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Re: [Paul] subdomain In reply to
Thanks Paul,

But, doesn't this trick affect major search-engines like google?

I know that Google likes "real" subdomains and I don't know if Google likes this trick. I hope that I'm wrong....Wink

thanks,
Ron
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Re: [rsahertian] subdomain In reply to
I can't think of any other search engine friendly way without manually creating all sub-domains.
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Re: [Paul] subdomain In reply to
How about using Rewrite rule?
Is it a possible solution?
It may solve the problem, and may be search engine friendly.

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Re: [rsahertian] subdomain In reply to
Rewrite rules might do it, but you would need to run a static site.

links1.mysite.com

the rewrite rule would pick off the 'links1' and turn it into a URL like:

mysite.com/links1/

If you don't have a script there, but return an index.html page, you might trick the search engines into ranking each "site". If you returned a dynamic page, it would most likely flag a potential "trick".

The problem is the next link clicked. Unless all the URL's _ON_ the page were rewritten to show http://links1.mysite.com/etc the search engines are getting smarter to realize that you might be doing something funny. You'd have to modify SiteHTML.pm to rewrite the top category pages.

From what I've found, trying to trick the search engines doesn't work. The people writing them are smarter than you, know more about apache and rewrite rules than you, and basically got hired because they figured out how to prevent someone from doing something sneaky. Those are the facts of life :)

If you have a good site, and more people link to it, then you get ranked higher.


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Re: [pugdog] subdomain In reply to
GT seems to have some 46,000 pages from this forum in Google - few of them are static :-)

Klaus

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klauslovgreen: Apr 22, 2003, 8:22 AM
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Re: [klauslovgreen] subdomain In reply to
I realize that. But GT is an anomoly. And I have not figured out why.

I am constantly surprised when I click a link, and I'm taken back to this forum (oddly, about 30-40% of the time to one of my own posts....)


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Re: [pugdog] subdomain In reply to
They are not using subdomains though ..

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Search engine friendly templates and rewrite rules =)