What's your opinion on blogs on sub domains?
 

What the topic says. What is your opinion? Is it worth doing?

subdomains are like assholes.

blogs on subdomains is fine.

Do a Google search, search for any good keyword short or long tail. Tell me how many subdomains get returned on page one, then ask the question again.

We have quite a few of them on our paysites domains. It has really increased our SE traffic.

They are good, help a lot...

I don't like sub domains in general so I would not good. Your better just getting another domain or have on the main site in a folder.

I wouldn't. Although some say google looks at them as another site, I'd rather just buy domains. :2 cents:

:2 cents::thumbsup

Asked the same question over at the "question" forum just today and there were no answers. I guess this is the question forum..

My results came out with my subdomains mixed in with my main URL results in google. Maybe I missed a trick but google clearly didn't look at my subs as a seperate site.

People should have blogs as their welcome page.. enter/exit.

One of our blogs, is a sub domain to one of our main sites, it's ok. It has enough traffic & gets picked up by google. Personally you may aswell use a domain unless the blog is for the domain it's going to be sub domain on :thumbsup

Thanks for the feedback. I see people doing this when looking for trades. I've always wondered, but never enough to try.

They are the poor man's blogs.

Here's the top 4 four for 'sports'

Espn.go.com
Sports.yahoo.com
Sportsillustrated.cnn.com
msn.foxsports.com

I put up 4 subdomain blogs 3 months ago and they each get around 60-70 visitors from Google per day, have also made some sales from them.

The answer would be zero.

It only works if your site is established on the main domain and uses the subdomain as a blog.

So this:

littleapril.domain.com
tammyteen.domain.com

doesn't work so much...

However, this does:

blog.tammyteen.com

I guess Google has an algorithm for that...