Hi people Right, I am currently developing a HUGE site, and as one of the features, a article script (or directory) will be upload, and I am thinking about making a sub domain e.g. articles.thesite.com If I obtained backlinks to articles.thesite.com, would they count as thesite.com backlinks??
nope. search engines generally look at both as separate sites. Link popularity doesn't automatically transfer over to the subdomain.