Google ranks subdomains more or less the same as subdirectories (also referred to as subfolders). But there’s a key difference, in that subdomains are considered standalone sites and distinct from the ...

If you host a website or blog on a subfolder of your main website's root folder, known as a subdomain, forward your main domain to the subdomain and mask the subdomain with your Web host's domain ...

My previous post assumes that you have forms based authentication set up.<BR><BR>Also, if you want to make it real easy on your users, disable the requirement for HTTPS for the root of the site, but ...