I have a doubt.

http://www.yahoo.com

http://news.yahoo.com

will search engines consider them as single website or seperate websites. Now if we look for number of pages indexed , then will it just look at the primary domain ( http://www.yahoo.com ) or both ( domain and subdomain ).

For search engines these are two different sites.

...but they aren't, so search engines are stupid or what?:eek:

I think they consider them the same.

Search engines do consider these two to be two different sites.

Different pages of the same site are ranked differently, or not?

...but they aren't, so search engines are stupid or what?:eek:How aren't they? One isn't a subset of the other. It's an entirely different domain called news. The whole point of setting up a subdomain is so you can take something that shouldn't be a subset of the top-level site and make it its own entity. :)

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/resume;
ranked from google 6/10

http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/
ranked from google 8/10

So different pages of the same site are ranked with different values.

So why http://hotjobs.yahoo.com and http://www.yahoo.com are a different site? Where is the proof?
Are search engines stupid?

(I'm not an expert, it's only a question)

:rolleyes:

So why http://hotjobs.yahoo.com and http://www.yahoo.com are a different site?One might consider it proof they are different simply because search engines treat them as being different. Go into your Google Webmaster tools area some time, and see whether you are able to reference pages on a subdomain using a www XML site map ;) Bingo - proof!

Plus (correct me if I'm wrong), but aren't subdomains considered unique FQDNs?

Yessss.

You're right, thanks. :agree:

Yessss.

You're right, thanks. :agree:Phew. I was running out of things to say :emlaugh: