Thank you all for the replies. So it seems the best option is to go with:

www.mybrand.com as main website for Airsoft and

www.mybrand.com/paintball/

.../store3 .../store4

thanks

Hi guys

Thanks for the replys. Let's me put more details. My website so far is specialized in airsoft. My brand is airsoft related and we have hundreds of categories airsoft related and I have a good rank for airsoft related keywords.

So my website is something like www.mybrand.com.

Now I'm planning to work with paintball. Despite they are both "action/shooting sports", they are different, with different customers, different products, hundreds of different categories, and of course, different keywords

I'm using magento and so far the homepage for my website is allways www.mybrand.com ... The page content (categories, products, etc.) are shown depending the store the customer has chosen. (default is airsoft page, but he can change for paintball).

So the idea was:

www.mybrand.com = remains with airsoft products (only airsoft content, categories, products)

paintball.mybrand.com = paintball related products (only paintball content, categories, products)

airguns.mybrand.com = if i decide to sell airguns

tks again

Hi there

I'm wondering what is the best strategy to work with multi-stores on magento: to use or not to use subdomains?

Suppose we have the www.website.com and we configure it to use multistore. The url base will not have the store id on it so it will not be like www.website.com/store1 and www.website.com/store2.

It will simply rely on the user session so if we have two categories for each store it will acces using:

www.website.com/category1 (for store 1)

www.website.com/category2 (for store 2)

The homepage will allways be set on www.website.com so we should have a single page for several "home pages" (depending on the user session / store he is accessing).

I guess this is not a good option if we want to rank for different keywords (for each store).

So I was wondering if it is a good solution to set:

store1.website.com

store2.website.com

This way we have 2 "home pages" each one able to rank.

Does it make sense? Is it good or bad for seo?

Another option I was considering was:

www.website.com (for store 1)

store2.website.com (for store 2)

store3.website.com (for store 3)

www.website.com/blog (for blog)

Can this work? Good or bad for seo?

best regards

Thank you all for the replies. So it seems the best option is to go with:

www.mybrand.com as main website for Airsoft and

www.mybrand.com/paintball/

.../store3 .../store4

thanks