Including Pet Supplies in Domain

Hello I have noticed many other websites are starting to do this with their domain, petsupplies.mydomain.com Since I am selling pet supplies would this be a smart move to change my catalog to that domain? I would still have the same landing page (main page) but my catalog would be as petsupplies.mydomain.com? Would this be beneifical or a waste? I have noticed they come right up when you google pet supplies then. my domain is petlandpl**us.com removing the *s. Just trying to get more traffic. Looking at different options that are out there. Thank you!

That format indicates a subdomain, so what they really have on their server is mydomain.com/petsupplies. Only you can decided if that would benefit you or not.

The loss/sandboxing of the new urls (even if properly redirected) cannot even come close to the very small punch from a directory change.

You see a subdomain is read by Google as a directory... not as a real part of the domain.

Rather if you want to increase your traffic, raise your index score. You have not provided the fresh, new content necessary for better traffic from Google. Changing your urls will not change this either. In the last year you have only 21 new pages and none in the last month.

This is where you should start.

~Melanie

Melanie,

What website did you find that information from, I just did all major changes to almost every page in my zen-cart, and a whole new design... google still has my old site in its cache... all this week i made all the new changes.

ryanb4614:

my domain is petlandpl**us.com removing the *s. Just trying to get more traffic. Looking at different options that are out there. Thank you!

If I were trying to increase traffic to my domain, I'd certainly NOT be obfuscating it when posting messages into forums such as this.

Just a thought.

Cheers
Rod @ vcsweb.com

I didn't mean how it was worded to direct traffic from here to my store. I was giving my domain so people can see it and give me opinions on it to get more traffic to my domain, if adding petsupplies before the domain would work, thats all wasn't advertising here or trying to get traffic from here.

ryanb4614:

Melanie,

What website did you find that information from, I just did all major changes to almost every page in my zen-cart, and a whole new design... google still has my old site in its cache... all this week i made all the new changes.

I didn't find that information, this is what we do for a living =-)

Essentially, when you change urls... even after redirecting, the new urls will get a quick push then tank. Its called the Google sandbox and it's happens because of the flux. Sites with higher trustrank will have less time in the sandbox, while those with low trustrank can stay down for a few weeks or be fully deindexed during the sandboxing period.

~Melanie