What to choose domains or subdomains for your site and not ruin SEO at the same time?

Question

Search Engine Optimization

I want to make a website like a blog. I want to post notes on the topic "programming (web, mostly)" and on a personal topic (well, for example, about traveling to such and such a country). But I don't want to stir everything into a mess by creating headings within the same site.

I'm thinking of buying a domain that matches my last name and creating a separate site for each topic with a subdomain. And on the 2nd level domain there will be only general information about me and links to subdomains (different sites with different topics).

Those. I want "programming.my-surname.ru" and "other.my-surname.ru", and at the entrance to "my-surname.ru" there will be links to subdomains.

Is such a scenario much worse than moving each site to separate 2nd level domains in terms of ranking by search engines (seo in general)?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Do you think that someone from SEO will come to your travel notes? Unless you're a super famous person, I wouldn't really expect anyone from the search to come to read your site
. Most well-known bloggers started with LiveJournal, now he is dead and the audience is mainly on Instagram, Facebook and Telegram
. For example, look at Varlamov's website - 10-20k views against 20-140k likes (views x 2-3) on Instagram. And the content is easier to publish and the social network itself is engaged in its promotion. And most bloggers don’t have a website at all, only social networks
But a programming site is a necessary thing. If the goal is to get customers from the search, then start writing good, high-quality materials and over time they will contact you

Answer 2

Dude, don't make my mistake.
In modern realities, one person to lead several topics is a road to nowhere.
Only mega-narrow specialization IMHO in the blog.
Not even just "programming", but for example, "a blog about programming in php", not even a "blog about programming in php on wordpress", then there is at least some chance to gain a more or less lively audience in five years.

Answer 3

Pfff it’s funny, you don’t have content for one blog there, and you decided to have a blog for each topic, then what’s for each post its own subdomain and one-page site