Promoting subdomain names

I have an ecommerce site with a number of stores sharing the same software. I would like to create subdomains for each of the stores, and then have each subdomain pointing to the stores own individual home page, which in turn will interface with the main web site they all share.

Example: store1.domain.com, store2.domain.com, etc.

Each subdomain would have its own home page, but that home page would then interface with the same site all the subdomains stores are sharing.

The intent is not to spam, but just that otherwise the one site can not begin to fairly represent all the stores that share the software. I feel that this way all the stores can be fairly promoted with keywords relivant to each of them individually.

Would this work, or be considered spamming by the search engines? Could this be penalized?

Thanks,

Ed

I am having a hard time understanding what you are talking about... what do "sharing software"... "interfacing"... "subdomain pointing to the stores own individual home page" mean?

Hi EGOL

"Sharing software" means all selling goods from one ecommerce site, just as if they had all combined their products and were selling from the same "single" estore front.

"Interfacing" means that the "individual home pages" I would assign to each store would link to the one "ecommerce site each store is sharing."

"Subdomain pointing to the stores own individual home page" means that each store sharing the one ecommerce site would be represented by their own assigned subdomain name that I would have point to the "individual home pages" I will provide them. These individual home pages would then link to the "ecommerce site each store is sharing".

I hope this clarification helps.

Hi EGOL

"Sharing software" means all selling goods from one ecommerce site, just as if they had all combined their products and were selling from the same "single" estore front.

"Interfacing" means that the "individual home pages" I would assign to each store would link to the one "ecommerce site each store is sharing."

"Subdomain pointing to the stores own individual home page" means that each store sharing the one ecommerce site would be represented by their own assigned subdomain name that I would have point to the "individual home pages" I will provide them. These individual home pages would then link to the "ecommerce site each store is sharing".

I hope this clarification helps.

(1) Yes, it would;

(2) No, probably not;

(3) Since you are using a third-party software without a contract (Google), they may penalize you for farting in the wrong direction. You just never know.

Personally, I like your idea. I do not think you should worry about Google penalizing you.

I like this idea too... my approach is a little different.... develop multiple sites that each sell related but different products. Then the traffic can be passed from one site to another.

Hi,

Sorry for replying to an old thread, but I found the topic to be interesting.
The problem with sub domains in my opinion is that web users have grown so accustomed to the www. prefix, but the architecture itself using directories instead is interesting since it is a nice way to build up a strong sub themes.

why subdomains instead of completely seperate domains..? like sorvoja mentioned, users are used to "traditional" domains

according to seo page in google.com, use too many unnecessory subdomains is not a good idea, and may cause some problems,but if every subdomain is very different that's maybe another story

subdomains w/ too similar content = spam.
subdomains w/ totally different content = separate sites.