Does third level domains hit your ranking?

[joel2280]

Is it safe to make multi sites with third level domain names.....
or do you rank better with multible web domain names?
Thanks,
Joel

[KimmoA]

Are you talking about...

"seo1.example.com
seo2.example.com
seo3.example.com"

VS

"www.seo1-example.com
www.seo2-example.com
www.seo3-example.com"?

I think you can guess... :-S

[Eltiti]

Some sites use subdomains very effectively/successfully (e.g., About.com, or the Startpagina network in The Netherlands)! These sites have consistently had good rankings over a long period of time; I would certainly not assume that third-level domains are "bad" per se!

[joel2280]

thanks

[physics]

If they are totally different sites then you should get totally different domains.
If they're related or part of a directory like on about.com then use subdomains.

[joel2280]

if you want better ranking then you dont want to patition your website, if subdomains are seen as differt websites.....so for better ranking you shouldnt use subdomains?