Hello Guys! My site will penalized If I setup several A records for our site ? If we setup several A records for our site xyz .com , would this help us in targeting certain local regions? For example: CityName.xyz .com: Bath .xyz .com Cambridge .xyz .com Canterbury .xyz .com Carlisle .xyz .com Durham.xyz .com Derby .xyz .com Plus around 50 other names. I want to target the keywords for each domain, each under a specific city. I'm unsure how Google would interpret the different sub-domains all pointing to the same IP address. Is this a good idea for keyword targeting, or would we be penalized by Google since all point to basically the same website/IP address? Or would you recommend making a unique page for each? Thank you
This would be equivalent to setting up several different sites, because Google s treatment of subdomains is similar to its treatment of independent sites. Even if you create unique content for all these sites, they will still have a page rank of 0 no backlinks to start with, and besides they are on the same IP and domain as your main site. You may not get penalized, but this sounds like a waste of effort to me at best. If you have a well established site, it is much better to set up local pages or subfolders instead of subdomains. In a word, I do not recommend it the way you describe it. I hope this helps.