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I am creating a new web site which will have a number of technical explanatory sections.
For the site structure, I had the idea that it might be fun to make each different page a sub-domain. It could help with branding and perhaps be a memory aid. Let's say there were 1-2 hundred pages like this. Apart from this approach, the site would have a normal visual navigation structure with menus, links and so on.
Basically, I would be swapping page extensions, for sub-domains. I am intrigued as to how this approach might affect SEO and so on.
For example...
example.com/
widgets.example.com
red-widgets.example.com
blue-widgets.example.com
Any thoughts?
<Prepares for abuse and ridicule>
here is google's matt cutts blogging on subdomains and subdirectories [mattcutts.com].
are you willing to split your domain authority and inbound links among several subdomains?
in your case i would go for a subdirectory or flat structure over subdomains.
it doesn't sound like you have enough content to support a subdomain structure.
Yep, I've considered the issue of split domain authority and I'm really not doing this for traditional sub-domain purposes, but rather as a marketing... gimmick, I suppose. I am not thinking of using sub-domains for *sections* of the website, but for every single page - so it would end up with about 200 pages/sub-domains.
However, the more I think about this, the dafter it sounds.
