I was having this debate at another forum. (forgive me)
My space weather section just could not get past 10th, searching Google: Space Weather Forecast.
Everyone said it would kill the search results since the site section has been up for 5 years as a directory. Logic just told me it should help.
I moved the whole Space Weather directory to a sub domain. In 4 days it is now second, just behind spaceweather.com
Now I know ~smiles~
so is it now visible through a subdomain and the directory ?
DT.
Thats what I would have done - subdomain and directory - or have the subdomain redirect to the directory. Similar to how I have my site setup - my blog has it’s own direcotry on my own domain and the blog domain points to that.
Mind saying that, searching for my blog domain only brings up the directory. I used to be first in google search, now I’m second so maybe having my own domain for the blog was the way to go.
[QUOTE=DoubleTop;455506]so is it now visible through a subdomain and the directory ?
DT.[/QUOTE]
Never moved nothing, just turned the directory into the root directory for the sub domain: http://www.spaceweather.sflorg.com/
I did create a 301 redirect from http://www.sflorg.com/spaceweather/
to the sub domain and used a redirect wild card to change all the directory pages to the sub domain too. Till I can get in and change the links properly. (about 40 pages in the space weather section)
Did notice a couple spots drop today, yet still much better then had been. All the redirects may be affecting that some.
Oh of course update the sitemap.