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Quick Qu.
If I have a forum website (just like this one) that has sections for different cities, I want to make it easy for visitors to go directly to their city section on the forum.
Therefore, I could do it in the usual 2 ways:
1. www.domain.com/city
2. city.domain.com
However, because of the nature of vBulletin forums, I would have to simply forward the url above to the less attractive http://www.domain.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=43 which would equate to the city forum specified.
Ok this QU. is less quick than I thought.
Here goes:
when I have banner adverts or text links all over the internet (on directories, in articles or on other message boards) what is the best way to link back to each city section?
1>
2>
3>
I would usually use the complete url as in (3) with a relevant city word as the anchor
However, it would be nice if the effect of people knowing the subdomain or folder got out so that they would know to substitute the city for another one, to arrive at the other cities' forum pages. Plus when they each tell their friends, it's nice that they just say city.domain.com etc.
I'm trying to figure out whether when search engines come across links like this (ie. subdomains that are forwarded using a .htaccess forwarder or other) whether they frown upon them, or do anything at all. I'd really like the most benefit of course.
Plus I'm worried that the search engine for some reason will come across city.domain.com and either won't be directed fully to the index page (because this isn't a true subdomain, it is only a subdomain for the purposes of vanity/ease of use, but then the user would get diverted back to the original domain ie. http://www.domain.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=43 which also has no reference to the city in there)
Any thoughts on this appreciated
If I have a forum website (just like this one) that has sections for different cities, I want to make it easy for visitors to go directly to their city section on the forum.
Therefore, I could do it in the usual 2 ways:
1. www.domain.com/city
2. city.domain.com
However, because of the nature of vBulletin forums, I would have to simply forward the url above to the less attractive http://www.domain.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=43 which would equate to the city forum specified.
Ok this QU. is less quick than I thought.
Here goes:
when I have banner adverts or text links all over the internet (on directories, in articles or on other message boards) what is the best way to link back to each city section?
1>
2>
3>
I would usually use the complete url as in (3) with a relevant city word as the anchor
However, it would be nice if the effect of people knowing the subdomain or folder got out so that they would know to substitute the city for another one, to arrive at the other cities' forum pages. Plus when they each tell their friends, it's nice that they just say city.domain.com etc.
I'm trying to figure out whether when search engines come across links like this (ie. subdomains that are forwarded using a .htaccess forwarder or other) whether they frown upon them, or do anything at all. I'd really like the most benefit of course.
Plus I'm worried that the search engine for some reason will come across city.domain.com and either won't be directed fully to the index page (because this isn't a true subdomain, it is only a subdomain for the purposes of vanity/ease of use, but then the user would get diverted back to the original domain ie. http://www.domain.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=43 which also has no reference to the city in there)
Any thoughts on this appreciated
