I really like static pages for every category in my website, and then blog pages after that. For instance, if someone is on the home page and clicks on "dental" or "health insurance", I don't like it to go to a blog style page immediately. I would prefer for it to go to another static page that has all the glamour and good looks of a home page, along with a few simple widget areas summarizing what the blog posts would describe in more detail.
So, I was thinking of doing subdomains. For instance, the following site for Panera does that when you click on some of the menu items, or the catering widget under the slider for instance.
Panera Bread › Home
Please forgive me if my questions seem a little pedestrian. I built my website back in 2005 with Frontpage plus some html coding, and now am updating to Wordpress.
Questions -
1 - Does Google index the whole domain, or does it consider the main site and all the sub-domains to be different?
2 - Would this potentially hurt my SEO?
3 - Can I use different child themes on the sub-domains, and/or even different frameworks, like Genesis theme for the main site, but a Thesis theme for one of the sub-domains?
4 – Should I use pages instead, like copy the home page, then change the name to “dental” instead of “Home” or “Index”?
4 - Is a sub-domain the best way to accomplish my goals stated above, or is there a smarter way?
So, I was thinking of doing subdomains. For instance, the following site for Panera does that when you click on some of the menu items, or the catering widget under the slider for instance.
Panera Bread › Home
Please forgive me if my questions seem a little pedestrian. I built my website back in 2005 with Frontpage plus some html coding, and now am updating to Wordpress.
Questions -
1 - Does Google index the whole domain, or does it consider the main site and all the sub-domains to be different?
2 - Would this potentially hurt my SEO?
3 - Can I use different child themes on the sub-domains, and/or even different frameworks, like Genesis theme for the main site, but a Thesis theme for one of the sub-domains?
4 – Should I use pages instead, like copy the home page, then change the name to “dental” instead of “Home” or “Index”?
4 - Is a sub-domain the best way to accomplish my goals stated above, or is there a smarter way?