I am looking for advice on subdomains in relation to google. I have a PR6 site that is relatively popular. I have created a subtopic related to the topic of the site and want to create a subdomain for it. Will the subdomain get sandboxed and if so is it for a shorter amount of time? Also...would it be smart to point a new domain towards the subdomain? Thank you.
No, the subdomain won't be sandboxed. And actually, this is one of the ways to get pages ranking high, to bypass the sandbox. It won't hurt. You're just pointing a link to a subdomain...nothing big.
yup, was about to say the same thing. just look at blog-spamming. the reason it's working is because the blogs created from blogger (or other sites) won't be sandboxed. NOTE though that backlinks would still go to some ageing delay.