Now that Stacker News has changed from being Bitcoin and Tech centered to having territories, it might be a good thing for territory owners to be able to have some search engine optimization (SEO) control in order to get search engines (and with it new visitors/users) to know about their territory and the greater site.

However, for this to happen each territory would surely have a subdomain rather than a subdirectory.

For example, instead of:

you'd have

I've only dabbled with SEO in the past and am unsure of the pros and cons for both SN and domain owners (and any future symbiosis between them) but perhaps it'd be a good idea to discuss this at the early stages of territory development.