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Generally the shorter the URL the better - both from an indexing & usability perspectives..

Also, shorter URLs attract higher click-thru rates

Further discussion/reading:

• http://www.seomoz.org/q/why-isn-t-seomoz-using-file-extensions-html-etc-on-any-of-their-web-page-urls
• http://www.seomoz.org/blog/11-best-practices-for-urls
• http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/8183/do-file-extensions-matter-anymore

Hi

I've just discovered that my client, who has a medical practice, has created a series of micro sites about their doctors (around 10 or so).

The problem is that they're on a shared host with the same C-class, providing no real link benefit at all.

Would it be best to:

A) Look for seperate C class hosts for each site & migrate

B) Recreate the pages on the main site & 301 all doctor micro sites to new pages

C) Leave as is and pursue other link building activites?

Has anyone run into a similar issue before?

Thanks a bunch!

Woj

Thanks, makes perfect sense

Thanks Ryan!

I guess my main concern is to not have existing rankings penalised. For example, the head office is based in Australia with other offices around the world - if Googlebot comes in from the US and gets a US IP.. would Australian rankings drop?

Also, I believe the content being served will be identical to all regions.. for now at least.

Howdy

My client has a .com site they are looking at hosting via Akamai - they have offices in various locations, e.g UK, US, AU, RU & in some Asian countries.

If they used Akamai, would the best approach be to set up seperate sites per country:

• .co.uk
• .com
• .com.au
• .ru
• .sg etc

Although my understanding is that Googlebot is located in the US so if it crawled any of those sites it would always get a US IP address?

So is the answer perhaps to go with Akamai for the .com only which should target the US market and use different / seperate C class hosts for the others?

Thanks!

Woj