Hi everyone, please see the poll and respond!

Let me elaborate here, say if there was a website, the url itself was around 6 or 7 letters long such as trap17.com, that sort of length, now would you prefer to see a subdomain on this site, such as sub.site.com or have a folder name in the URL like site.com/sub, I want the URL to be as easy to remember and as catchy as possible and im not sure which method would give the best results here.

In line with my last post i would appreciate any links to a website where i can find information like this. But please respond to my poll so i can get an idea of what the average user thinks.

Thanks!

If I have a true domain, I prefer to use sub.site.com because it looks cleaner.

If I have a subdomain only, I prefer to use site.com/folder because it makes the URL looks less rediculous.

Yeh i would agree with that, a sub.sub.com URL is long to remember, to clarify it would be a top level domain like www.site.com.

Thanks for the quick response, i forgot to clarify that it was about a TLD.

Most Def a sub domain... but a folder domain is good to..

Why subdomain? It can be shorter instead of something like site.com/members/cwconline/index.php or however it is

But also note a good url like geocities, or tripod will up and boost your search engine rank if it is in a folder. Because
they already have there pages with there page rank, and there domain, is what is being looked at next to your folder where your
site is.

It really depends on your situation. Sometimes folders work better. Sometimes sub-domains work better. If you mean for organization within one particular site, folders are usually better. This way you can make it easier to reference included files like stylesheets, javascripts, images, and other files. However, in my opinion, if your purpose is for a whole site (like your own site on a free host) I would use subdomains. This way you can use a forward slash ('/') and go to the root of the site. Because if your freesite url was like "hostsite.com/yoursite", you would have to use "/yoursite" to get to your root.

Hmmm I would say thats a tough call and like recon mention it would depend on the situation and what your site is all about. Both set ups could be used for good organization you just have to use them appropriately, for instance if your site is all about news then this site up would be appropriate for archiving that news: yoursite.com/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4.

Now if you have a business that has divisions within that company then this set up would be more appropriate:

cia.whitehouse.gov fbi.whitehouse.gov

You can be organized in any matter of ways to have a good looking site, it just depends what kind of site your trying to set up for people to see.

This isn't my area of expertise, but I think when you create a sub-domain on your account in Cpanel, there is a folder created for the sub-domain and the sub-domain can be accessed using either www.sub.domain.com or www.domain.com/sub. But I might be wrong.

I prefer to have WENISCOOLASIAN.com/subdomain

To me it just looks better than blahblahblah.weniscoolasian.com seems long.

I prefer my own domain instead of a subdomain cuz www.mydomain.com looks cooler and easier to memorise than www.mydomain.sub.com. It also makes the sight look better. A subdomain may imply that the owner of the sight doesn't care much about it cuz he isn't spending a lot of money on it. While a domain signifies that the owner is spending money and therefore caring about it. In other words a domain is more attractive for traffic, so i have to go with domain instead of subdomain.