Redirecting a subdomain

[Brian Turner]

So I experimented with setting up the Platinax directory on a subdomain...

Got to admit, I'm not convinced that it really offered any value, other than to make it easier to split up a site for DNS purposes.

Anyway, redirecting a subdomain could be a bit of a pain, so here's the code I used:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^directory.platinax.co.uk$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.directory.platinax.co.uk$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.platinax.co.uk/directory/ [R=301,L]

[QiSoftware]

In your example, would that be a circular reference?

Q...

[Brian Turner]

No - it basically states that if someone tries to access the subdomain, either as a normal part of the URL, or else with the www. in front of it, it'll get redirected to the subfolder instead.

[Tracy123]

This method is based around improving traffic by using sub domains

Let start with an example:
You are the owner of "nicecars.dot"
Go create multiple subdomains on nicecars.dot or any other domain (i suggest using a second domain name), let's pick "fastcard.dot".
Create like 100+ subdomains on fastcars.dot
Choose different names.. like driving.fastcars.dot , photo.fastcars.dot , mechanic.fastcars.dot, etc
Leave them empty. The single file that will be placed on this subdomains will be a rss feed file (rss.xml)
Now go to news.yahoo.com or news.google.com or feedster.com ... or any other place where you can get some feeds on your topic.
Make a search for "cars" and start picking every five feeds and create a RSS file, upload it to a subdomain, and so on until you get more and more subdomains created (so that you can get some decent traffic from feed readers). The more unique feeds, the more results in feed searches, the more traffic you'll receive.
How to create RSS feeds? Using the RSSisTraffic.exe provided.
Just enter your main(real) site url, title, description, and COPY+PASTE 5 feeds titles and description into the program, click "generate" and a RSS file will be built. Save it as rss.xml and upload it to a subdomain. After uploading it to a subdomain, go to www.pingomatic .com and let others know about your feed.
Why using subdomains? Because feed readers take subdomains like a new website. What we do, is place the link in every feed to point to your real main website.This way when a feed reader clicks any feed, he will be pointed to your main website.
So, that's the way we get traffic, but how do you get backlinks?
Having so many feeds, they will surely be picked by automated blogs, feed news, and many other websites that live from feeds served on the web.
This is the easiest method you can use to get free targeted traffic and backlinks for your website.
In short: Create rss.xml feed files for as many subdomains