Regarding Subdomains...

...and google.

[gutabo]

Sups everyone!

I have another question, this time regarding subdomains and Google... does google "reads" the subdomain name as a keyword? Like, if I have a subdomain foo.bar.com, and someone makes a search for "foo", is it gonna count like a 100% match or a 50% match('cause of "bar" being there)?

Also, we're recreating our +15000 pages site(colorwidgets.com) and my boss wants a "family" of subdomains like blue.colorwidgets.com, red.colorwidgets.com, etc, all with unique content(without losing the main site, but this will turn into a 5k pages site), but with links to the main site and to their "sisters"... how wise is this?

Again, thanks in advance!

[vitaplease]

Keyword in url as such might count for a very small percentage in ranking and you could probably find as many opionions on the percentage as members here.

Sadly IMO it counts a lot more if part of the keyword in url is used as anchortext from external links towards your url. Hence the proliferation of key-word-rich-domains.

[google.com...]

Don't create multiple pages, subdomains, or domains with substantially duplicate content

[gutabo]

Nonono, we don't want to spam anyone, my boss wants some diversity, and every site will have unique content!

Thanks for the reply!