Got a domain, installed Wordpress, now what?

[whitey]

Originally Posted by Cleo

What are some opinions about subdomains verses a bunch of top level domains?

I am a big believer in keyword rich domains for organic traffic. I would rank the way of structuring as follows...

TLD
subdomain
folder

There is one big caveat to this ordering. When I was in the business in the late 90's and early this decade, most webmasters used warning pages.

If you are doing a warning page, I would do a folder for the primary blog. This structure actually has some linking and SEO advantages. I am developing a few text tgps right now and they will all have warning page pointing to a root folder. You can acquire better long term SERP and Page Ranking this way, but it takes a much longer time.

Remove the patience factor, however, and the above ranking holds true.