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Old 09-07-2004, 08:01 PM
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Hello,

I have been doing some SEO work for other companies and currently have my real estate license and have decided to not just dibl-dable in real estate any more.

I wanted to check with the experts before I started my site. In building the site would it be better to have it built like city.mydomain.com or better to have it mydomain.com/city. I am asking this because the area I cover has three or four cities right next to each other. This way I can try and capture some of the traffic for each of those cities.

Also if anyone has any trial and error stories that they could share with me that they have already been through that I could skip due to your experience I would appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

Bela
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I too pondered that question. I checked around and determined, for myself, that from a SEO point of view mydomain.com/city [directory] was a better choice than city.mydomain.com [subdomain].
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Default Re: Creating the site

Google prefers large sites which makes mydomain/city more attractive.
With subdomains you can dominate the top 10 positions but with different cities that is less likely anyway.

I'd go for the big site and no subdomain.

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