Hello All, I want just to ask you something, Maybe some of you have done this in the past.. or know about what I am talking. If I will get some penalties from Google for one of my subdomains, and it will drop in rakings, what will happen to all of my other subdomains, what will happen to my home-page???? I know that google find subdomains as differnte websites, will it penalize them as different websites, or the penalties for one subdomain will be sufered by all? I hope you can help me, Thank you very much, Best regards and a Happy New Year. Dan
subdomains are usually treated as a separate website. So a ban on a subdomain should not influence your general ranking. That said - I would not personally risk black hat SEO on a subdomain, because of the off chance that it WOULD influence the rest of my site. If you are going to actively do stuff that might get you banned, I would advise using a totally different domain.