Dumb SEO Questions

(Entry was posted by Nathan Nikolay Gaidy on this post in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 06/18/2020).

Does Google rank a website according to the website`s keywords?

Hello1. Does Google rank a website according to the website`s keywords on its homepage or according to the sitemap & homepage? My real question is:
2. Will adding a blog on a subdomain will be a bad idea for SEO purposes as the main website itself is very low on keywords (service provider). 3. I currently have a blog on the same domain on and I believe this is the right way to do it. Please correct me if I am wrong. 4. Can I sitemap a "subdomained" website to the main website or the "subdomained" website will have to have its own sitemap? Thank you for taking the time reading my post
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YOUR ANSWERS

Selected answers from the Dumb SEO Questions Facebook & G+ community.

  • Stockbridge Truslow: First... site maps have NOTHING to do with ranking. They aren`t even really used for discovery. A site map is simply there so Google can know what you`re expecting/hoping to be crawled. It can also be useful to let you know if there are pages on there that it can`t find otherwise.

    Google still wants to "discover" pages by finding links to them.

    Next... keywords are only a part of ranking too. When it comes to domains and subdomains, it`s how they are linked together that controls whether it`s treated as the same site or not. If both domain and subdomain have the same shared navigation and structure, Google will sort of look at it all as one site. If they aren`t linked together as if they were a single site, it`ll treat them as generally different sites.
  • Nathan Nikolay Gaidy: Stockbridge Truslow Hi
    Thanks for replying…See More
  • Nathan Nikolay Gaidy: mywebsite.com

    sub.mywebsite.com…See More
  • Stockbridge Truslow: https://searchengineland.com/google-search-console-gives...
  • Stockbridge Truslow: Personally, I`d want everything on one domain just so it can all be managed and templated from one place. Less things that can go wrong.
  • Nathan Nikolay Gaidy: Stockbridge Truslow 100%
  • Michael Martinez: As someone who has worked with subdomains (including multisite WordPress networks) for years, let me just say don`t EVER do that "for SEO". It`s not worth the trouble.

    Stockbridge Truslow offered you great insight.
  • Nathan Nikolay Gaidy: Michael Martinez Thanks!

View original question in the Dumb SEO Questions community on Facebook, 06/18/2020).