Hi, I have seen in some web directories, they don’t accept sub-domain. Do you know why? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Jackie
Because if they accept subdomains, people can create 1000 subdomains from a site and submit to the directories getting all the BL for the main domain, this is the problem of linkmarket.net, there are people with a lot and a lot of subdomains from a unique site.
Most of free directories only accept sites with good quality, however , most of sites with sub-domain don't have good quality. So why not buy a domain name for your site? only need $6.9 per year
yes we would not accept sites with a subdomain as it probably indicate some kind of spam If you have to get a domain with no money in your hand go and get a co.nr domain at www.freewebspace.co.nr or at www.hostbidder.com where they will give u free domains for posting
It depends on what type of subdomains are. One submitter has an insurance.com url and it has submitted every one of it's subdomains with all the insurance company's you can think of, this will over populate the category if allowed. So in that case none where allowed. On the other hand if http://somesite.com has a web tutorial site for it's main domain and wish to submit a forum sub domain http://forum.somesite.com then surely enough that would be accepted. Just because it's a subdomain it doesn't always falls into deletion from the admin panel, it falls into quality like any other main domain that will usually lead to acceptance, atleast for me anyway.
Search engines treat as seperate domains and since they can be free you see tons of spam from them. I agree though usually a directory.domain.com is OK, otherwise it's promptly deleted in my directories.
Most directory owners associate sub-domains with spam submissions that's why they don't allow them but i disagree with their reasoning as .com's generate just much spam yet a directory owner would never consider banning .coms...
My take on this is that subdomains usually cost no money to create, so there's no inherent incentive for the owner to maintain them. I'm thinking here mostly about free blogs or geocities-type sites, which is where you get a lot of subdomains. A lot of these pages end up abandoned, and it's a pain for a directory owner to sort out all of these when they get forgotten by their webmasters after just a few months.
It dpends on how they define sub-domains. Like if your site has a blog, and a forum, and a directory. Some don't want you submitting all of the except the parent domain. Other are concieted idiots and won't list blogspot blogs etc. These types of sites should be judged on their merits.
There are many more effective ways to judge spam. Blogspot hosts some very great blogs that don't deserve to automatically be disregarded by their domain name.
Suppose, a site on agriculture creates 3 sub-domains under that domain e.g.: crops.agri.cpm , farming.agri.com and mktg.agri.com . 3 of them are having unique, useful and fresh content and have separate entity. In that case what would you do? You will list 3 of them in 3 different categories or will list only one of them.
If I see several people try to fill my categories with several sites all covering the same topics I usually reject them all. Especially when they are on the same domain.