Subpage with own homepage and navigation good or bad?
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Hi everybody,
I have the following question. At the company I work, we deliver several services. We help people buy the right second hand car (technical inspections). But we also have an import-service.
Because those services are so different, I want to split them on our website. So our main website is all about the technical inspections. Then, when you click on import, you go to www.example.com/import. A subpage with it's own homepage en navigation, all about the import service.
It's like you have an extra website on the same domain. Does anyone has experience with this in terms of SEO?
Thank you for your time!
Kind regards,
Robert
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Thank you for your answer Cesare,
I don't want Google to see and rate it as an independent website.... It's just to make a clear seperation between the two services.
The services have differens pricings, different How it works-pages etc. So when you are in the import-zone, and you click on Pricing, you will see a page with the pricingof our import-service....
I'm sorry... struggling a bit to explain it in English.
Looking forward to hear from more people!
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Hi Robert,
If you want to have an extra website on the same domain, that Google also sees and rates as an independent website your need to do it with a subdomain, i.e. import.example.com, not with a directory like you are suggesting (www.example.com/import).
That said I would't be sure if the import business should be integrated as a complete independent website with a complete own navigation. Why not thinking about it as a subpage, with an own subnavigation, not a complete high level menu?
Independently from that if you do it as a directory the new import will benefit SEO wise (e.g. DA) from the second hand pages. Link from pages where it makes sense from one topic to the other and vice versa. Topic wise the two topics match together in my opinion and add to one another. So this shouldn't be a problem.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
Cesare
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