A different domain for part of your website

[harrylewisliley]

Is it possible to set-up a different domain for part of your website.

We have an event coming up and we are discussing the pros and cons of setting up part of our website for the event, with pages connected (for example domain/event-name/section-1, etc.), or having a unique domain.

I've been told we don't need to create a brand new site, we can just have a new domain for that part of the website (so the example above would change to eventname/section-1, etc.)

Is that possible and how does it work?

 

[harrylewisliley]

Also, what do we need to be careful of. I.e. I'm concerned about things like duplicate content issues, and how this could effect the site's performance in search engines

 

[Alessandro Paletta]

hi There,

I run an SEO company and have not heard of doing this before?

I may be completely wrong though!

How are you guys doing with your SEO?

 

[harrylewisliley]

Hi Alessandro. I think what they mean is creating a new domain and then redirecting the section of the website (i.e. those specific event pages) to the new domain? Is this possible? (and if so, how)

I'm worried this is going to be harmful to the site if so. I.e. all the value of those pages, the incoming traffic/links would go to the new domain (which is only going to be temporary).

Is this something we should be concerned about? (and what else really?)

 

[Alessandro Paletta]

hi,

Yes it is possible to direct a part of a website to a new domain, just like a standard link to another webpage.

The traffic and links built to that domain will not be harmful for your existing site. All it will do is benefit the other domain.

To make things simpler, you could just use the same domain you're already using, but use a URL that's friendly to the topic. For example yourcurrentdomain/topic/ just like adding a new page

Hope that helps. If you don't understand what I'm saying happy to speak on the phone

 

[TLMartin]

Yeah it's easy to do

Essentially you can have a complete new domain and share it on your existing webspace it just shows the data in a different folder.... or you can set up sub domains

So for me I have www. for my main site, shop. for my online shop, blog. for my blog and support. for my support section all of which is in the same webspace on the server, but just helps section the site into different elements and keep things tidy

 

[CarlReed]

Just keep it on the main site and let the link juice spread to it

 

[Luke R]

Just keep on the main site - don't even subdomain it (people do that with blogs - not a great idea, either!) - subfolders are better than subdomains.

 

[howmedia]

You should be able to redirect your new domain name to a page on your existing site; you can usually do this from your domain control panel.
Have you not thought about creating a landing / marketing page using the new domain name so that it can be marketed as its own separate entity? You could then link this back to your existing site.

 

[StevePoster]

Other popular websites uses this kind of method by creating different domain as a part of your main website like www.animal.com/dog/ then redirecting to www.tips.animal.com this will contain good ways to take care for your pet but still related to your main site.

 

[BustersDogs]

I do that all over my site, have lots of different domain names. All pages are on the main site, but I think it looks neater to direct people to www.trainyourterrier.co.uk and www.dogwalkertraining.co.uk. rather than something like http://brentwooddogwalker.co.uk/dogwalkertraining.php

 

[mindhunter]

Is it possible to set-up a different domain for part of your website.

We have an event coming up and we are discussing the pros and cons of setting up part of our website for the event, with pages connected (for example domain/event-name/section-1, etc.), or having a unique domain.

I've been told we don't need to create a brand new site, we can just have a new domain for that part of the website (so the example above would change to eventname/section-1, etc.)

Is that possible and how does it work?

Yeah this is very much possible to set up a different domain for part of your website as it is mostly done for Blog part of the website. And you can opt for any of the process to do the same. But if create another page for your part of your mobile then you can retrieve all your links juices and SEO works and do not have to bother about the traffic, pagerank, visibility. An there will be no issue of duplicacy or so.
But if you use another domain then you have to start working from scratch for links, page rank etc. So for me creating page or subfolder is more efficient than creating sub domain. thanks

 

[WikiWill]

It sounds like the sort of thing a sub-domain would be useful for. You can run a different theme and manage this as a microsite whilst still tagging on to your main domains SEO value. If you don't need the site to be too different to the main one though then just create a sub folder.

 

[Madiha Khan]

One of my friend created so many sub-domains in his website and Google is crawling his pages more frequently, I saw few comments here where people are discouraging to create sub-domain but it works.

 

[MarekBober]

All has pros and cons, it is worth to have many domains with different front-end connected to the same backend. You stay on top of all orders, inventory, payments, shipments (shared settlements) with marketing potentials of multi- stores. The Same strategy you can observe on bars market- same company offers two competitive products- but at the end of a day both of them feeds same bank account. In case you need advice how to manage multidomain approach and stay on top- drop me a line. Happy to help

Marek

 

[Stan Gabriel]

If you don't want it to simply be a new page on the website, you can always create a subdomain, yes. However, in the case of a single event I would think a page would be more fitting, as there's hardly any point of creating an entire subdomain simply for a single event.

 

[MarekBober]

You can create entire mask dedicated to a single product you wish to promote, connected to the dedicated domain (no subdomain).

One Page Shops are specially designed to seamless selling on any PC or mobile device.
Take a look on long4lashescom.iai-shop.com as a good example how you can build up such dedicated mask. Perfect approach for hot seasonal products.

Why it is worth to have such approach- dedicated domain, unique value for customers, outstanding user experience. How much it cost- it depends on domain cost and graphic implementation.

Happy to help
Marek

 

[gau061]

You can consider setting up sub-domain for new event or any other thing that you feel need separate entity that needs exposure.

 

[MarekBober]

You can consider setting up sub-domain for new event or any other thing that you feel need separate entity that needs exposure.

This is exactly how it suppose to be, you can even create two competing scenarios with two separated domains- mars vs snickers game- and all of orders can be managed from one administration panel- and warehouse inventory management- so you stay on top of all the things.