| Silvermine AI
GoDaddy Says to Add Social Subdomains for SEO—Should You Actually Do It?
- The 'Improved SEO' claim is false—redirecting a subdomain to Facebook sends all link authority to Facebook, not your main domain, and Google treats subdomains as separate entities anyway
- Social subdomains are vanity URLs for branding: facebook.yourdomain.com is easier to say on a podcast than facebook.com/yourcompany/about/page/12345
- If you want this functionality, you can set it up yourself for free in your DNS settings—GoDaddy is packaging a 2-minute DNS change as a premium feature