.uk.com any good for seo?

[BFTUK]

Well sadly subdomains are being and have been abused in the past.

http://www.seobook.com/archives/002217.shtml is an example of ebay. Lastminute.com are notorious for it too.

More extreme versions involves as you say network of sites, and they truly are spam.

The danger of using subdomains, and we are assuming Google sees UK.com's as subdomains (they may not); is that at some point subdomains may be devalued, watered down or treated with more suspicion by Google.

 

[robind]

as ebay has shown, subdomain = domain from the SE's point of view. So it doesn't matter one jot whether or not Uk.com is a subdomain or not, it ranks the same either way.

This may change in the future, but as it stands you are fine with a uk.com, or any domain hack for that matter, for seo.

there is nothing to stop you running a million affiliate sites from one domain, as far as i can tell, with little or no seo penalty versus using seperate domains.

I can't imagine google penalising subdomains, at least not soon, cos the only sites that can effectively use subdomains for search spam are massive sites (who tend pay millions to google via adsense despite dominating the natural searches ...hmm)

 

[BFTUK]

there is nothing to stop you running a million affiliate sites from one domain, as far as i can tell, with little or no seo penalty versus using seperate domains.

Nothing except a lack of foresight, i'd hate to wake up one morning see that subdomains (and the powered pass by the main domain particularly) had been watered down.

If your that confident, try it and see what happens, please do prove me wrong.

I'd be concerned basis my business structure around a number of subdomains and more concerned using a subdomain on a subdomain from a main domain you have not control over ie uk.com

 

[robind]

I couldn't agree more - it would be a very risky way of doing business

I was speculating on pure SEO theory, currently. not on long term best business practices.

Sorry if I went off topic.

I still think its not in google's ad revenue interests to water down the subdomain. their strength forces big and small alike (for different reasons) to place more ads.