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There is a lot of info already posted here about this type of arrangement, but I know the replies are generally the same and way over my head too.

Here is something I was told from one of the SEO's Boards and it helped me look at the subject from a prespective I could understand. These guys are Search Engines fire fighters :).

I hope this helps someone - it helped me make a very important decision.

"Without seeing the site, I don't know how wise that is; but consider two potentially big disadvantages before you commit.

1. Google sees sub.domain.com (or www.sub.domain.com) as a completely separate site - as separate as chalk.com and cheese.com - so if they are really that different, why not give them individual domains.com, and avoid any visitor confusion?

2. With all your stuff on one site (domain.com/widget1/, domain.com/widget2/ etc), you will have X incoming links. Divide the site into (eg) 10 separate domains, and each one will have, on average X divided by 10 incoming links. That could destroy your Google placing at a stroke, with almost ten times the work to optimize ten sites instead of one.

These are potential down sides - you need to decide how much they will apply to your site(s).

With most service providers, you can have either sub.domain.com or www.sub.domain.com - but it is important to be consistent, or you'll further subdivide your links; sub.domain.com and www.sub.domain.com are separate domains in Google's eyes.

Will Drupal act as a single admin login, and control a dozen domains and sites ? I'm looking for something that I can login at 1 central location, create content and select which site it will publish to.

Greetings,
I need to setup seperate areas with some common sharing of "some" resources. Forums and news would seperate.

There is a lot of info here on sub.domains.com and Vhost and I see I can do either. I'm not going to pretend for a money I understood anything they posted and I don't know alot about the Pros and Cons of such.

But I know there must be some Pros and Cons and I would prefer to discover them before I get in too deep or at least know about them prior to doing an install.

I recently downloaded the latest version, and decompressed to view the Installlation documents. And I found, that Drupal does't have any installation wizard which Xoops and other major CMS have. I know Drupal can be installed via Fantastico auto installer, but then why Drupal itself doesn't provide simple installtion wizard that makes everyone happy and easy to install without using DB commands or modifying the files?

Hi i set up e mail this page module and it does not work. it shows me following error message 404 error: emailpage not found.

what can i do?

I'm thinking of using Drupal for a gaming site that I'm going to run, but would need to allow more than one account to exist for a single e-mail address (i.e. A person may have three characters/accounts in the game that he'd want separate web site accounts for, but they all use the same e-mail).

Presently, when I try to test this by creating an additional account using my own e-mail address, I get an error message, "The e-mail address (my e-mail address here) is already taken."