How are subdomains treated on Google

From a newbie

[gosman]

Hi.

I've recently signed up as an affilitae for a travel company. I have registered a subdomain that points to the a city guides section of there website. (Example guides.mywebsite.com/london)

1. when googlebot visits my mywebsite.com will it index these hyperlinks?

2. If so is this ethical

Thank you in advance

[Kratzy]

most likely,

I administrate the web presense for an Internet Service Provider and we have several sub-domains, Google doesnt seem to have a problem with it/them.

[marcs]

Google won't have issues with subdomains as such.

However, pointing one at an existing/other web site probably won't do you much good. It should get filtered out as duplicate content.

[ozfreedom]

i was planning something along the lines of this.

i have one paid host/domain.

i am allowed to have lots of subdomains.

i was going to setup a handful of different websites, all on different topics/themes. Eg cats, pianos, soccer.

But as they would all be theoretically moneymaking sites (lots of content, of course, but with say an affiliate link to a petshop), i was going to have ONE link from each site, to the others.

So my cat site would have one link to the piano site, and one to the soccer site.

would i be penalised for using the same hosting address/master domain?

ta

[le_gber]

I don't think that if you only use one link you would get penalized. Otherwise the webdesign companies that host their customer sites and have them linked to their site would all be penalized.

Leo