submitting subfolders

[annrl]

If a person has one main domain, but has 5 different websites dividing the brands to subfolders, can't they submit the URL for each separate website?

Here is an example:

 

http://www.salesontheinternet.com (main domain)

 

http://www.salesontheinternet.com/military/index.htm

http://www.salesontheinternnet.com/jeans/index.htm

 

Can't the two above be submitted in the correct category since they take you to that specific site.

 

Thank you,

Ann

[jimnoble]

Short answer - no.

Longer answer. Please just submit the root URL. Our editors will list any subpages that justify it, but be aware that this is pretty rare. Now if you were selling items as disparate as baby rabbits and concrete blocks, it might be a different story.

[annrl]

submitting with subfolders

 

The reason I am asking is that it is very expensive to get 5 separate root URL's if you have 5 separate websites. It is fine if you are a major business, but if you are a small family business, it is very tough.

 

It also makes it easier for customers to be able to go directly to the brand they want, hence the subfolders, example, /Levis/index.htm, /Carhartt/index.htm etc.

 

If the root URL is very general, but the subfolders are the brand, shouldn't it be able to be submitted that way?

 

Just a thought.

 

Thanks for getting back to me.

 

Ann

[hutcheson]

We don't care whether you own Walmart, or sell used jeans out of your car trunk at flea markets. And we don't care whether you buy domain names at the ghastly price of $4.95 per year, or use subdomains, or subfolders. Multiple single-product-line listings for one company are explicitly and specifically forbidden by staff edict. And you could have told that, by asking yourself, "how many brands does Walmart offer? How many listings does it have?"

 

The rules are the same regardless of how you bifurcate your one website; and the answer is the same. The only difference between subfolders and separate domains is, if you used subdomains or separate domains, and you submitted them all, we'd not only know you were a spammer, we'd strongly suspect you were a malicious sneaky spammer -- we would take it personally, and we'd whack you with a bigger hammer.

[giz]

>> "how many brands does Walmart offer? How many listings does it have?"

 

Answers in same order: tens of thousands, and, a single digit positive number that is fairly close to zero.

[annrl]

submitting with subfolders

 

Thank you for getting back to me.

 

Ann