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Sub Domain use on single website

paul2000

12:19 pm on Jul 13, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Hi,

I have one real estate website. I won't to keep the home page, contact us page etc in my own wordpress account under my domain. Problem is our back office software provider needs also to manage the site to deliver our property search results.

I could keep example.co.uk and use property.example.co.uk for the property search results.

The software company are suggesting this method will hurt the SEO and I should leave the whole site with them for management. Trouble is they take a while to make changes when I can login to wordpress do it myself.

The keywords we are going for are not very competitive plus I intend to develop our blog if I can continue to maintain most of the site.

What do you think? Should I be persuaded that to get good SEO let them run the whole site or should I keep the site and just let them provide the property search results under a sub domain.

Thank you

Paul

[edited by: brotherhood_of_LAN at 2:37 pm (utc) on Jul 13, 2014]
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vandelayweb

3:18 pm on Jul 13, 2014 (gmt 0)

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I'm sure you've figured out that the developer has a vested interest in recommending that course of action. By bringing your site under their management, they can bill out more hours.

If you are more comfortable managing the website yourself through Wordpress, I would just go the subdomain route. It won't hurt SEO per se. You just won't gain the benefit to your main domain from any links you earn to the subdomain. They are largely viewed as two separate sites by Google. When you are talking about property search results they are so ubiquitous these days, I can't see them earning a lot of links so any potential SEO hit shouldn't be much of a concern.

Planet13

3:36 pm on Jul 13, 2014 (gmt 0)

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The other option is to have the IDX/property listings be on the same domain and put your wordpress site into a sub-folder (not-subdomain) instead.

As for SEO purposes, I think that most people would agree it is hard to rank property listings unless you are one of the mega companies that has listings from ALL OVER (here in the US we have things like zillow and trulia that do that).

"The keywords we are going for are not very competitive plus I intend to develop our blog if I can continue to maintain most of the site. "

Are you sure you have done a thorough job of checking out your competition? real estate tends to be very competitive.

paul2000

7:56 pm on Jul 14, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Thank you both for your reply, I really appreciate it.