Sub-domain banned. Can it affect the TLD?

Tommy Matalino Level 1

June 11, 2013, 11:31 am

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Sub-domain banned. Can it affect the TLD?

Can a banned or penalized sub-domain affect the top-level domain name?

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MikeQ

MikeQ

No, your main domain won't be penalized.... as sub domain is treated separately.

12 years ago

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Shahid

Shahid

Nope. But it might effect your overall traffic or pr. Traffic because you might have build backlink for your subdomain and now as your subdomain is banned, you will not get visitors to your site. Pr because homepage pr is weighted average of all the internal prs.

12 years ago

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Tommy Matalino

Tommy Matalino

Nope. But it might effect your overall traffic or pr. Traffic because you might have build backlink for your subdomain and now as your subdomain is banned, you will not get visitors to your site. Pr because homepage pr is weighted average of all the internal prs.

I know traffic could be affected. But how come PR is also affected?

12 years ago

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Shahid

Shahid

It is because pr for actual domain is weighted average of all the webpages/subdomains of a site. So, if your subdomain was the reason for good/bad pr then it will be effected too !

12 years ago

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Beverly

Beverly

Can a banned or penalized sub-domain affect the top-level domain name?

Just think about this idea. Let's say that a blog (on a subdomain) on blogger.com gets banned from Google. Would blogger suffer in search engine rankings? Probably not. I'm guessing the same would be true with a blog/site that is located on a subdomain of another TLD too.

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Shahid

Shahid

Just think about this idea. Let's say that a blog (on a subdomain) on blogger.com gets banned from Google. Would blogger suffer in search engine rankings? Probably not. I'm guessing the same would be true with a blog/site that is located on a subdomain of another TLD too.

blogger is completely different ! It is because blogger has more than million blogs in it. So, if one blog is banned it doesn't effect blogger. But number of subdomains a site can have will be limited. So, it will definitely effect your overall traffic and ranking.

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Charlotte

Charlotte

There's no way that Google sees a subdomain the same as a TLD so if a subdomain was banned, it would not affect the TLD. The two sites are considered separately for practical reasons. For one thing, some sites keep their forum or blog on a sub domain with the main product or shopping site on the top level domain (such as the .com version versus the subdomain.domain.com).

11 years ago

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