Advantages to purchasing subdomains?

April 3, 2006 on 10:33 pm | In Domains & Hosting |

If so, then it would be better to purchase a subdomain for sale. Another potential advantage to buying a subdomain would be to be a part of a great keyword domain. I googled “subdomain for sale” and didn’t find much, so I’m not sure about this. Darren Rowse bought a subdomain early on, which posed the question. I think he was just broke at the time, who knows?! Still question remains, which I need to research… unless anyone comments on this:

Are there REAL useful advantages to purchasing subdomains, in place of an outright domain?

It seems more risky to me, as you are dependant on the decisions of the primary domain owner, but certainly there must be a case for purchasing a subdomain over an actual domain? WHY DO I CARE SO MUCH!? I must be bored.

HAHA… goodnight!

PS: Old link, but some details here.

PPS: A subtopic to this is can the subdomain use blackhat SEO techniques (unethical means to get high ranking on Google) and subsequently get the main domain penalized/removed? The following answer weighed heavy:

One of my SEO clients has had a subdomain penalised (before I worked with them), and it is nowhere to be found in the Google SERPs despite thousands of backlinks. Their main domain is, however, unaffected and enjoys good rankings in some competitive areas. A penalty of any sort would have caused serious damage to those rankings yet when the subdomain was shot down there was virtually no change to the primary domain (in fact, less of a change than I would have expected as a result of the loss of links from the subdomain).

And another guy posted…

i’ve had cases of subdomains being banned where the top level domain gets banned also.. (of course they were crosslinked, so that might have been the case)

So the verdict is still out in this gray area of blackhat vs. whitehat.