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The following questions have been submitted by Yvonne Russell of Grow Your Writing Business for the AskCarl feature
Assuming that you’ve checked that trackbacks appearing in your comments aren’t spam, is there any SEO or link advantage to leaving them or deleting them?
Trackbacks for me is just a way of thanking bloggers who have linked to your blog, and help your readers find more stories talking about the topic of a specific blog post.
Although trackbacks are being badly abused these days, they still have some SEO benefit. Because take note, they still count as a link. The “nofollow” attribute is just used to stop PR bleeding and not to stop search engines from crawling the link.
So, I guess there’s no change in your search engine ranking if and only if you use the nofollow attribute in the trackbacks.
If I want to have sub domains e.g. for a multi author site, which is best and why? www.mysite.com/subtopic or www.subtopic.mysite.com
Let me fix the definitions first, www.mysite.com/subtopic is called a subfolder, a subfolder is considered by search engines a connection to the main site i.e. www.mysite.com. On the other hand, subdomains (topic.mysite.com) is considered a different site by search engines and they crawl it without the help of the main domain. (independently)
So for a multi author site, I’d suggest using a subfolder if all the topic is relevant to the main domain and if not, a subdomain is suggested.
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One thing to think about with multi subdomain sites is that they are indexed better for lower PR sites than one domain with many sub folders. For example, a new site will not have all pages indexed by google (if it has LOTS of pages). But if it is broken down to topica.domain.com topicb.domain.com, etc. and the pages are distributed across them all then the pages will all get indexed. This doens’t make sense for just any site, but if you have sites that could work with subdomains that may be a good reason to go that direction.
Hi Carl - Thanks so much. This is very helpful.
You said “I’d suggest using a subfolder if all the topic is relevant to the main domain and if not, a subdomain is suggested.”
So, if my topic was preschoolers (It’s not), then for subtopics like preschool crafts, preschool health, preschool food - would you suggest the subfolder or the subdomain option?
They all deal with preschoolers, but they are not all on the same topic. On a related note, is this type of topic/subtopic too broad? Is it better if the niche is “tighter”?
Joshua - thanks for your insights also - more food for thought.
Thanks again Carl
Yvonne
Well it’s always better if the niche is tighter. But anyway, you can still use subfolders to increase the rank of the pages.
You’re very welcome Yvonne. thanks for keeping this feature alive.
I have a question Carl, how do you receive the payments made for you?? I think Adsense needs a person higher than 18 years old to be a payee… and how do you receive the payments from the ads through your Advertise page. tnx..
I use 2co to get paid on advertisements because we can’t be paid via paypal here :(
do you know any other good and easy ways to get paid from people from other and far places from your location?? tnx..
I’d like to know how it is possible to get ranked on the first place in Google for such a competitive term like “make money online”? Great work anyway!