Syd Lexia wrote: |
It would be damaging to the news section. It's already on Google. Moving it from a subdomain to the top level domain would lead to unpleasantness. |
I am going to use made up numbers, you probably have the real ones though.
Right now you have:
(Main Site Page Hits, 1000) = Total (1000)
(News Site Page Hits, 250) = Total (250)
Instead of:
(Main Site Page Hits, 1000) + (News Site Page Hits, 250) = Total (1250)
If you are going purely on links, then consider that your web of internal links would be much higher. Almost all links would be internal instead of external.