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I have a site about how widgets are made, widgets.com. I'd like to create two sister-sites on the history of widgets and on widget maintenance respectively. For design purposes, I'd like to do this by creating three sub-domains--history.widgets.com, manufacture.widgets.com and maintenance.widgets.com--and use widgets.com as a meta-site, introducing the three of them together.
If I incorporate into my page design links to widgets.com and to the home-pages of each of the three sites, so that all four links appear on every page of every site, then will Google reject the advances of the three sisters no matter how attractive they otherwise are? (i.e. Will I get penalised for crosslinking?)
Possible answers from other threads:
1) No, links between subdomains are treated as internal links. Link as much as you like.
2) Yes, unless the sites have plenty of backlinks from elsewhere you're in trouble.
I'm still confused. Any advice?
Welcome to WebmasterWorld
You don't have anything to worry about. Using subdomains in that manner is a very common practice. You only run into trouble when you begin putting large numbers of subdomains that contain near duplicate content.
Thanks WebG.
Say a database of animals, 10000 entries, formerly:
domain.com/animal/3432
becomes:
3432.animal.domain.com
and
domain.com/species/horses
becomes
horses.species.domain.com
Now strictly domain wise this is actually the MOST accurate usage of the domain level system. But due to potential for abuse would google penalise such a site due to the very LARGE number of crosslinks there would be?
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