New sub-domain for every section of website

Is this worth pursuing or just bonkers?

[bouncybunny]

I had an idea, which is possibly not original or clever, but there you go.

I am creating a new web site which will have a number of technical explanatory sections.

For the site structure, I had the idea that it might be fun to make each different page a sub-domain. It could help with branding and perhaps be a memory aid. Let's say there were 1-2 hundred pages like this. Apart from this approach, the site would have a normal visual navigation structure with menus, links and so on.

Basically, I would be swapping page extensions, for sub-domains. I am intrigued as to how this approach might affect SEO and so on.

For example...

example.com/
widgets.example.com
red-widgets.example.com
blue-widgets.example.com

Any thoughts?

<Prepares for abuse and ridicule>

[phranque]

that subject has been discussed quite a bit here:
site:webmasterworld.com subdomains directories -rewrite - Google Search [google.com]

here is google's matt cutts blogging on subdomains and subdirectories [mattcutts.com].

are you willing to split your domain authority and inbound links among several subdomains?
in your case i would go for a subdirectory or flat structure over subdomains.
it doesn't sound like you have enough content to support a subdomain structure.

[bouncybunny]

Thanks

Yep, I've considered the issue of split domain authority and I'm really not doing this for traditional sub-domain purposes, but rather as a marketing... gimmick, I suppose. I am not thinking of using sub-domains for *sections* of the website, but for every single page - so it would end up with about 200 pages/sub-domains.

However, the more I think about this, the dafter it sounds.

[phranque]

maybe you have 200 "one page wonders [google.com]".
=8)

[bouncybunny]

Hmm. It's an interesting way of looking at it.