Do I need to make each client a subdomain?

Hey there BHW!

I am starting a web design business for local clients.

I plan on targeting local businesses that already had a website but are ugly/poor.
I will redesign it right away that is way better than the old one.

I plan on doing it on one of my subdomains and send the link (with the subdomain in it) through cold email to the owner of the business.

My question is,

Let say I found 2 or more local clients with ugly websites:

1. Should I redesign each business one at a time and use only 1 subdomain for all?

Example:
-I found 3 Italian Restaurants, I made the redesign for 1st resto with link of italianresto.mydomain.com,
then email the 1st one, then wait for confirmation or rejection. After that, I will redesign the 2nd resto with the same subdomain but with different logo name infos etc.

I thought of this to lessen the work for creating every web design and using one template.

OR

2. Should I redesign each business simultaneously with different subdomains?

Example:
-I found 3 italian resto, I made the redesign of the 1st resto with link firstrestoname.mydomain.com
then redesign the 2nd resto with link secondrestoname.mydomain.com etc.

I thought this on the other hand for me to find another prospect without waiting for the 1st prospect to reply. Maybe I can make templates that is ready to use and edit for this to be fast.

What do you think BHW?

Using multiple subdomains is fine. You are using this only as a sales pitch, so you can always delete old subdomains if it gets too crowded

nisdee said:

Using multiple subdomains is fine. You are using this only as a sales pitch, so you can always delete old subdomains if it gets too crowded

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Nice thanks for this bud.

How many do you suggest the number of subdomains before deleting?

Enoryht said:

Nice thanks for this bud.

How many do you suggest the number of subdomains before deleting?

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There is no number, but if you notice it's slowing down your website (it shouldn't unless you get LOTS of traffic), then you can delete some

Hi @Enoryht the second option is better. Use one subdomain for each possible client. That way you can have it until your prospect responds. Some people have a hard time making decisions so it would be a nice way to give them some time to decide. And, as @nisdee said, you can delete old ones if they are slowing down your main site.

I see. Thank you so much for suggestions. I'm gonna do the second. Rock on \m/

One thing to realize is that subdomains do not pass SEO. You don't want bad client blacklisting your whole domain.

Why even use a sub-domain to build demos? Why not simply just place each demo site in a different directory located in web root? I have been doing that for years. The only problem that I have found is if you are using the wordpress and using the wordfence security plugin. There seems to be conflicts with modifications in the .htaccess file. Just don't install wordfence until live site is ready.

You could just use a different directory for the purposes of demo
Saves a bit of time versus setting up subdomains and eventually having a lot to manage