To Sub Domain or Not To Sub Domain? What Are the Best Practices?

[Dr.Marie]

I have no idea!

[Test-ok]

but before I mentioned how sites like wordpress.com could be affected if Google was to allow spammy links to a subdomain to affect the whole site. From the above quote, it looks like Google treats wordpress, blogspot, tumblr and others differently than small sites with just a few subdomains.

Makes sense. I also don't think google can distinguish between the different sites.. if it works like that for those subdomains, I'd bet it works that way for all the others too.

[fathom]

Makes sense. I also don't think google can distinguish between the different sites.. if it works like that for those subdomains, I'd bet it works that way for all the others too.

In reverse... a subdomain is no different than a folder today (in Google anyway) so wordpress could be structured like wordpress.com/my_webspam/ and it only effect those issues on those particular pages.

disavow is exlcusively a Manual Review tool... which suggests Google Webspam Team controls how they devalue your domain... a page, a folder, and subdomain or the complete domain.

[Test-ok]

disavow is exclusively a Manual Review tool... which suggests Google Webspam Team controls how they devalue your domain

I agree on the manual aspect of it.