Removing Sub Domain & Improving Page Performance

[Web3Marketing87]

Hello Moz folks,

This question is about my main website: www.web3.ca
(run on joomla)

I just noticed a very strange occurrence - when I add ANY subdomain to the home page, it still resolves to the home page. example:

test3.web3.ca

Can this be bad for SEO, and is there a way to eliminate this?

Second Question: Do you think there are two many outgoing links on the home page of Web3? Could reducing the number of links improve the home page's performance & rank?

Thanks
Anton

[adammason]

Hi Anton

I have seen this duplicate issue before and from my knowledge there are a lot of sites on the web that do this.

My initial thoughts would be to not worry too much. Google will know this is a widespread issue and will deal with it accordingly. I would recommend looking at setting up canonicalisation on your site as this will help Google understand the issue and it will help Google show which page is the relevant one to index. This will effectively eliminate the issue for you. If you want any details on how canonical works see here https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/139394?hl=en. Or PM me and I will see if I can help.

To answer your second question, I would not worry about the amount of external links. Having the limit at 100 links per page (as moz recommends in its on page analyser) is an age old tip because when Google was much smaller and had less server resource it rarely crawled past the 100 link. Here's a video that shows they dropped this guideline. Nowadays this is not the case. As long as you are not linking to hundreds of pages for SEO or Search Engine manipulation reasons then I would leave it as it is.

Hope this helps.

Adam