Thx for the reply, that is a good plugin how ever that is not what i want accomplish with it. I will have a custom post format form that they can submit a article or information or picture with a description with they account, and they get to choose which category they post in ex. entertainment, tech or something like that. That part i have figured out i just want to pull posts from certain sub-domains(blogs) category’s to my main magazine homepage template. See my friend what iam looking to get to work here 🙂
Okay, keep in mind that duplicating posts entirely on multiple sites is a fast way to get Google to rank your SEO down in the basement.
Oh of course the way i have it worked out is like this, if the user posts in entertainment category or subdomain, ex. entertainment.mysite.com and he names his title best pictures of this celebrity or something like it, the url shows up like: bestcelebrity.entertainment.mysite.com this way it wont hurt my seo and entertainment.mysite.com pulls in the info then my main website page www*mysite.com displays random articles from all over and from all users, see what iam trying to accomplish i know pretty complicated, how ever maybe budypress hook function can accomplish this.
That’s what the plugin I linked to does. You post in bestcelebrity.entertainment.mysite.com, it pulls the post to entertainment.mysite.com, and yet links BACK to bestcelebrity
okey i give it a try can it link to .mysite.com as well and any issues if my site is installed in a subdirectory i dont like to leave my files around in ro*t you know 🙂 and thanks for the help so far my site is getting there i know it dosnt look to pretty its a modified twenty theme lol making my own little theme and going to post a edition of it to wordPress free themes as well 🙂
@lazlo Spazy, I hope my thoughts may be useful.
I want to point out that in the eyes of Google ALL sub-domains are entirely different domains. In my opinion, you would have a significant SEO advantage if you organize in subdirectories instead of sub-domains/sub-sub-domains. In fact, I would suggest you use NON-multisite and classify into WordPress Categories. It sounds like you want domain.com to be the central place for all the posts so I think that’s what you should optimize.
This same principle can be seen at CNN.com. For example, they do cnn.com/politics and not politics.cnn.com. I may be missing your precise intended purpose but this would be my initial feedback.
Reason i use sub-domains is to protect my domain from duplicate content for SEO purposes,
I’m not sure what you mean here. How does using sub-domains decrease duplicate content? If it’s just posted at domain.com there will be no duplicate content to begin with.
@patrick Nommensen, Hi there thank you for advice and yes i understand i love to use a single install, since wildcards are giving me headache with multisite on my host, the reason im afraid of duplicate content is because if i have a user or a novice author writing about something or posting in a certain niche and they decide to copy it from a other source, it would be filed under a subdomain and wouldn’t hurt my main domains SEO, it be great if i could use subdirectory and would help a lot for ranking but then again if someone posts non quality information my main domain gets hurt. Unless there is a other way around it then multisite that i should know about 🙂
I see where you are coming from. I do not think that you should choose Multisite because you are scared of content scrapers. In my opinion, it’s just not valid enough of a reason to take that route. If your website is THE authoritative publisher of your original posts then Google will sooner are later love your website and crawl and index it far before any illegal website. When it goes to index the BAD website it will see that the same content has already been published elsewhere and drop it’s SEO rank way down low.
You may want to check out the Cloudflare ScrapeShield. This prevents scrapers and also shows you where your content has been re-published. Then, if the other site is also on Cloudflare you can submit a Copyright Infringement & DMCA violation form at https://www.cloudflare.com/abuse/form. If the other site is not on Cloudflare you can contact their host directly.
Also, while you’re at it — take a look @ipstenu’s presentation about using Multisite from yesterday here.
since wildcards are giving me headache with multisite on my host
You shouldn’t really be using multisite on anything less than a VPS…unless you have some extraordinarily powerful shared hosting provider.
i see! Well this part regarding the anti scrappers i understand plus i use yoast to place the author after each article and the link so google knows if it was scrapped, i know my english is not the best i must have not explained right why iam trying to use this setup. Reason for it is this, i make the technical section and other gadget write ups to my own site and then other authors or buddypress users post random articles relating to that topic like celebs that would be a subdomain so they would post it in celebs.mysite,com that way it wont hurt my SEO because iam almost positive they will post non SEO friendly content here and there, on the other hand i can pull posts that are worth mentioning to my main site and display it without killing my SEO rank, which droped already from 2.5 mil to 3.2 mil as for alexa because of that i deleted the bad articles and disabled user base for now.
as for hosting it is arvixe they super fast hosting company i try the big name hosting even tough they reliable this one is faster.
if i have a user or a novice author writing about something or posting in a certain niche and they decide to copy it from a other source, it would be filed under a subdomain and wouldn’t hurt my main domains SEO
Sadly, it WOULD impact your entire domain’s SEO.
Google no longer cares about your subdomains, it says “Oh, that’s sub.lazlo.com, it belongs to Lazlo.” The only time it would NOT impact your main domain is when you’re big like WordPress.com or Livejournal and so on.
lol Ipstenu sub.lazlo.com love it haha well i guess i just have to make sure the sub-domains are uniqe too or im extra crispy, either way it was help from you guys because the plugin you recomended works what i need it for to show case subdomains posts and going to use it with my multisite.
as for Wildcards had points *.mysite.com to mysite.com as CNAME and not as a A record in the ip table and multisite worked like a charm with subdomains.
