While browsing the websites, you may have noticed that the address changes when you go to the next subpage. Sometimes you’ll see a simple URL like netpointsystems.net, but sometimes you’ll see a word added before the main name like blog.netpointsystems.net. In this case, the word “blog” indicates that we are dealing with a subdomain. Find out in this post what a subdomain is and whether it’s worth creating one.

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How we can use a subdomains ?

The use of subdomains is optional. It all depends on the purpose of your maind omain. The main advantage of subdomains is that they are very easy to create and use for different purposes. For example, using subdomains looks like this:

Language version of the site

Subdomains are often used to generate URLs for different language versions of a website. So you have the option to clone a specific website and run it in a different format and language version with a different URL. Due to this, the structure of the site itsel fand the structure of information may not match, since language versions created on a subdomain work independently of another subdomain or main domain. For example, assuming our site is yourdomain.com, create:

de.yourdomain.com — subdomain for the German version of the site.

From this address you can run a copy of yourdomain.com and modify it to suit your needs, such as adding translations. The advantage of this solution is that the website does not have to have the same information structure as the main page located in yourdomain.com.
fr.yourdomain.com is a subdomain created for users from France. In this case, you can also make a copy of the site and adapt it for your French neighbours and so on.

Thematic version of the site

Having studied the Internet, I noticed that many very large and popular sites use subdomains for their thematic sections. With this solution, you can display direct URLs to the subject areas of your website that are of most interest to your users. For example:

helath.yoursite.com -separate sections of the site dedicated to health and healthy eating
fashion.yoursite.com – can be used to create a fashion section on our website.
sport.yoursite.com -these addresses can be used to create a sports section on your website.

Solutions for large enterprises

Subdomains are also great for large companies, portals, and enterprises. If a particular company is very large and has many branches, the ideal solution wouldbe to create a subdomain for each branch so that users in certain regions can only use those sections of the site that are of interest to them. The situation is similar with respect to large companies that are often quoted on stock exchanges and have many associated obligations. They must publish regular reports and maintain an IR section. Subdomains work great in this case too. We’ll see:

london.yourdomain.com is an example of a subdomain you can create if you want a separate section for London’s residents
report.yourdomain.cm is a generic URL used by companies listed on stock exchanges to publish regular reports.

e-commerce solution

Subdomains are also widely used in online stores. When you have a store, you often use different URLs for the admin panel, customer panel, information section, etc. Let’s seesome examples:

shop.yourdomain.com is the generic subdomain used as the URL for your online store if your store doesn’t have its own domain and you want to use a subdomain of your company’s domain.
admin.yourdomain.com – I often use the subdomain as the user panel URL.
mail.yourdomain.com ist he address many companies use to direct their employees to access corporate email

How much does a subdomain cost?

Creating a subdomain is free. If you are a subscriber of an Internet domain, you can create addresses that are subdomains and use them for your projects. There is no fee to renew a subdomain for another year. You only pay for the renewal of the root domain. The rates are the same regardless of the number of subdomains operating under it.

How does Google handle pages running on subdomains?

For search engines, sites working with the addresses blog.yourdomain.com yourdomain.com are different sites. This means that the content posted on your blog does not affect the position of your company page in search results. However, there is also apositive side to this. Sites running on the primary domain are not affected for this reason, even if subdomain pages are “punished” for violating Google’s policies.

However, these days it is becoming more and more popular to create a blog on your main domain. It’s just to improve a blog with more content.

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