http://www.yackyack.co.uk/wordpress/no-redirection-with-wordpress/ A Search Marketing Blog Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:09:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/wordpress/no-redirection-with-wordpress/comment-page-1/#comment-48 » Google Ranking - Want to perform well? Bring on the subs. - » Blog Yack Yack Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:05:31 +0000 http://www.yackyack.co.uk/2007/01/12/no-redirection-with-wordpress/#comment-48 [...] If you’ve ever launched a new website, especially since 2005, then you’ll know that it can take quite some time to be found for your target kw’s and phrases within the search engines.This is a little look at  Google and how it treats new domains and how trust and authority are bestowed from parent domains to subdomains and how it can be an effective strategy in kick starting a new campaign, without excessive reliance on PPC campaigns. I launched a new subdomain on the 1st January 2007. It fitted in with one of my New years resolutions of blog regular. I wrote a few posts about various odds and sods as and when they occured to me. I gave them logical titles and didn’t give too much thought to any SEO’d page content and structure strategy. It was a Wordpress subdomain in the form of robwatts.wordpress.com. As I said previously I wasn’t sure I was going to get into this blogging lark so rather than go out and purchase domain, upload the scripts, create a database, configure it, start getting links etc, only to find after a week or so my interest had waned I decided to go with a free wordpress subdomain. Signed up, chose a theme and started to blog, easy peasy lovely jubbly. A few days later i found I was getting referals for various kw’s from Google. Wow, I thought, slick and quick. I was pretty surprised at the almost instant level of authority. Take the query pay to blog. The subdomain ranked virtually overnight, there it is right at the bottom, position number 10 in my abridged jpg. [...] [...] If you’ve ever launched a new website, especially since 2005, then you’ll know that it can take quite some time to be found for your target kw’s and phrases within the search engines.This is a little look at  Google and how it treats new domains and how trust and authority are bestowed from parent domains to subdomains and how it can be an effective strategy in kick starting a new campaign, without excessive reliance on PPC campaigns. I launched a new subdomain on the 1st January 2007. It fitted in with one of my New years resolutions of blog regular. I wrote a few posts about various odds and sods as and when they occured to me. I gave them logical titles and didn’t give too much thought to any SEO’d page content and structure strategy. It was a WordPress subdomain in the form of robwatts.wordpress.com. As I said previously I wasn’t sure I was going to get into this blogging lark so rather than go out and purchase domain, upload the scripts, create a database, configure it, start getting links etc, only to find after a week or so my interest had waned I decided to go with a free wordpress subdomain. Signed up, chose a theme and started to blog, easy peasy lovely jubbly. A few days later i found I was getting referals for various kw’s from Google. Wow, I thought, slick and quick. I was pretty surprised at the almost instant level of authority. Take the query pay to blog. The subdomain ranked virtually overnight, there it is right at the bottom, position number 10 in my abridged jpg. [...]

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