There is a cool plugin called wp subdomains that lets you treat each page as a subdomain. There is a good discussion about setting this up here.
One important trick, best explained in the comments and not in the installation instructions, is setting up the subdomain in cpanel.
When you create the subdomain the installation instructions refer to “point the document root to the same path as your main wordpress document root.”
Normally, when you create a subdomain, such as in Hostgator, cpanel automatically creates a new subdirectory for the subdomain. For example, a subdomain called test is created in a subdirectory called test.
What you want to do instead, say for an add-on domain called google.com, is to erase the subdirectory reference to ‘test’ and instead use google.com (or google) or whatever the main directory is for the domain on which you have WordPress.
Tip: if after setting things up nothing appears on your subdomain, delete your subdomain in cpanel then make sure you follow this order: First, create your WordPress page and add the WP subdomain code as an extra field. Second, create the subdomain in cpanel.
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do you think search engines such as google still see this as 2 distinct domains? Or do you think this is void by the fact that they are pointed at the same path?
IN addition to Brians comments be aware that when you create a subdomain in cpanel it can take some time (10 minutes to over an hour in my experience) to “appear” to the web. This is the same as adding a new addon domain, it is not “instant”.
I have found WP Subdomains very effective (see my site http://keithtblog.com) and very easy to setup; I use it for categories, not pages which makes more sense for my site.
I am also interested in Peter’s question about Google? Any thoughts out there?
Can anyone help me on this plugin. Which version of WP are you using since 3.2 and above are not working anymore.