Article - Sub Domains - An Inexpensive Solution to Grow Traffic authored by Dawn Wentworth

Republished by National Realtors Directory Not part of or affiliated with the National Association Of Realtors. According to the NAR only real estate brokers and agents that are members of the NAR are allowed to use the title Realtor. The following article Sub Domains - An Inexpensive Solution to Grow Traffic was authored by Dawn Wentworth and is republished in this directory with the author's permission. These articles are published as an information source for real property owners, buyers, sellers, investors and real estate brokers, agents and sales people. Sub Domains - An Inexpensive Solution to Grow Traffic  by: Dawn Wentworth Read this brief article that reflects what we learned about subdomains and their important role in effective internet marketing. A sub-domain is a section of your main web site, set up and recognized as it's own cyber real estate. There is usually no cost or very low cost to set up multiple subdomains on your hosting account. Sub-domains are folders located within a directory of your main site and carry a pre name to your existing domain. Example .. http://www.masteradvertising.com is our main domain name. But we use many sub domain names for our research areas, script testing and growing development areas. Such as .. http://traffic.masteradvertising.com (for our traffic exchange) http://mail.masteradvertising.com (for our members free mail service) http://team.masteradvertising.com (for our admin team members) and so on ... To best utilize your subdomains, it is important that they all remain o­n the same subject area or theme. Our site pertains to online advertising. It would not benefit us to launch a pet store under pets.masteradvertising.com. Each subdomain can serve as another gateway into your main establishment, for visitors, testing marketing strategies, and search engines too! Since creating content for a website takes time, often webmasters simply modify the existing text of the main site and reuse it on the subdomain site. It is important that the content is not exactly the same and that the subdomain does not simply redirect to the main site. Otherwise, search engines may not index them and you may even may even get tossed from the engines database. Subdomain websites can be submitted to the search engines just like your main site. If your website is doing alright in the search engines, then imagine having five more websites out there for the spiders to find. Five more listings means that web surfers have five times as many ways to find yournetwork of websites. More and more search engine algorithms take into consideration the number and ranking of sites that link to you. By linking your sub-domains to your main site and to each other, the ranking of all of your sites is improved. Your subdomains provide a great area for testing banner exchanges and other advertising resource mediums, without cluttering up the main site. Each sub domain will carry it's own traffic statistics, and campaigns can be tracked efficiently by ones self with server stats or other preferred tracking methods. Get creative and branch your services and products out between your subdomains yet centering them around and connected via your main site. It will increase your keyword density and rankings per sub domain and most consumers are more comfortable working with a specialized area then a o­ne-stop shop. About The Author Dawn Wentworth http://www.masteradvertising.com Resources and Research into Traffic Generation submit@masteradvertising.com This article was posted on July 6, 2004 For more information and articles on internet advertising see Internet Advertising Articles From National Realtors Directory or for other real property information and articles see National Realtors Directory. 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