Alot of us have been astounded at the sub-domain technique used by some spammers out there: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=97090 A big thread about a few company's http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=112851 My thread, which I started in the Google area, but somehow got moved to the Reviews > SEO area. Don't know why. But in any case, I'm interested in the premise that these guys used to spam the Goog. Since each subdomain is considered a domain all to itself, and a domain is included quickly in the index, wouldn't that mean that Goog is more likely to crawl each subdomain at a regular pace, thus increasing the time my WHOLE site offerings are included. Would it mean that the "sites" all really one big site, would be crawled x times faster? Ok, I have a website that I'm building right now that 4 distinct flavors of categories, related, but each can live on their own. Now, I was planning on going straight ahead and building the website (asp.net and SQL) with pretty basic search functions and the like, we all build them. But what if I made a subweb for each distinctive category? Basically the front page would refer and point to these subwebs, which would be folders of the original root, and each would be it's own little app, all centered around that particular category. It go me thinking, because I know there is an SEO perk to having the actual search term in the url, so if the search term is women's shoes, and my site that is all about that category, womenshoes.mysite.com, would that have any advantage, say over mysite.com/womensshoes/searchresult.aspx?=CatID8? I know that each "site" would be indexed on it's own merits, and yes, it mean 4 times the linking work and 4 times the promotion, but would this technique, as evidenced by what spammers can do in as little as 5 days, can get these pages included in Google? What about MSN and Yahoo? Well, we all know how to own MSN, and somewhat Yahoo, but how about the Goog. Any thoughts?