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    • vladokan
      vladokan last edited by

      Hi, I want to ask do you thing that it is good and necessary to have a subdomain with a keyword in it when the domain doesn't include it?

      f.e. you have a website named

      domain.com

      but there is no keyword in it. And if you add subdomain

      keyword.domain.com

      will this bring any benefit?

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      • kadesmith
        kadesmith @Bio-RadAbs last edited by

        In case you aren't sure what EMD means - Exact Match Domain.

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        • Bio-RadAbs
          Bio-RadAbs @kadesmith last edited by

          Absolutely,

          I would also suggest being wary of Google's EMD update. If you don't have a domain with quality content, it won't rank you high just because you have the keyword in the URL.

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            kadesmith last edited by

            The first thing to remember is that Google will treat the subdomain as a completely different website.  So if you want Google to view your subdomain as it's own site, yes it will bring benefit.  If you are looking for your website to have relevance to the keyword on the domain.com site, then create some content that is relevant to the keyword and put it in a page on the domain - domain.com/page.

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