Ok, well. I've forked out for BANS, but I can't afford more domains now, is it ok for me to just use subdomains, like subject.buy.mydomain or just buysubject.mydomain ? Or will that hurt my rankings? :| Cheers in advance
In general regular domains will work better as you can get it to be keyword rich etc. But to be honest I myself use the subdomain tactic and I find it to help for a couple reasons... 1. Anytime I add a new store I can get it indexed very quickly in google 2. I get ranked very quickly 3. I can save a ton of money 4. It's just easier to manage all my sites at once. Now take that with a grain of salt and do what you want to do. I think either way works fine as long as you work hard. I personally don't like people just jumping into the market who expect to get rich. My partner puts in 5-6 hours a day on the site working on it and we still haven't been able to get consistent income so do not expect to get rich quick. Work hard for the long run.
heh, I'm not in it for get rich quick, more that I want to minimise startup costs. My domain is .co.uk ; do you think Google will have any issues with that? :| like, for instance, nintendo.store.gpearce.co.uk ; will that be ok?
I think it's better to have a 2$ .info domain (which is made specific to uk in google webmasters tools) rather than having a subdomain on one single .co.uk domain.
You could subdomain your niche domain. For example if your selling roses on your bans and your domain is roses.com, you could subdomain them to be red.roses.com, yellow.roses.com, black.roses.com. Then when you setup your adwords, and someone is looking for Yellow roses, it would take them directly to your yellow roses site instead of just your "roses" site. OK, so roses were a stupid example, but I'm sure you catch my drift. Could be used for cameras, video games, cars, clothing brands...ect.
Yahoo and Google both use subdomains, and if they can we can do too. From my personal experience though, subs hardly ever have returned customers. You can easily remember shopping.com but try to remember bestdeals.shopping.com.
I've used subdomain with BANS without problems. IMHO the success of your BANS site depends on traffic, niche selection and how well it converts.