SEO with sub domains in the URL

[xiverisx]

Hi, i am buiding shop with prestashop, and i am quite new.

My company is interested in possibility to access categories and products in such way http://categoryname.domain.com rather when http://domain.com/11-categoryanme

It should increase search omptimization.

So for know i'd like to know is that possible and if it is how could i achieve this?

[21846657]

A contribution named urlrewritingplus can do a partial job. But I don't know how to do exactly what you want when it comes to sudomain (refers to a real sub folder on your server).

[GotLiveChat.com]

I'm not sure what difference it'll make using category.domain.com vs www.domain.com/category *in terms of SEO* but it'll
be developmentally easier to not use the subdomain method. I say this because your DNS admin will need to create a
subdomain for every category you're going to create if you go that route. It's not hard to do this, but could become tedious if
you have a lot of categories.

[xiverisx]

Thanks for replies. Will try know using apache mod rewrite fucntion with virtual sub-domains.

[Timpet]

cat.domain.com is in google terms not placed on the same domain as www.domain.com/cat (as fare as i know) i think this would damaged the SEO, because it would more or less destroy internat link building. But im not sure.

[Salvync]

I don't recommend you to use the www.subdomain.yoursite.com it will be counted as a whole separate site rather than a category. do the www.yoursite.com/category/ instead.
This is in on my own experiences and suffer.

[Neo290381]

hello
i agree that categories is a good ideea, internal linking, etc.

i read that is a module that will help you if you want to use subdomains

good luck

[xiverisx]

Thanks for your replies. we decided not to implement categories name in sub domain feature.

[jbjb]

Hi,
I would also like to have subdomains as categories. Did anyone managed to make something like that work ?

I ve found this module :
http://www.prestastore.fr/referencement-seo/1173-categories-as-subdomains.html

Did anyone already test it ?

My utimate goal is to have a differente theme by domain, I ve found this great module :
http://www.prestastore.fr/fonctionnalites-front-office/1234-theme-by-domain--un-theme-par-domaine.html

But first, I need to set up the sub domains

Thanks a lot !