: Multiple level subdomain's effect on SEO? For example if I'm selling a blankets: incredibly.soft.blankets.mydomain.com How would that affect my SEO? Would Google penalize me for this?

@Turnbaugh106

Bad idea since Google addressed this issue awhile back, far too many webmasters were buying rich keyword domains and also making hundreds of rich keyword sub domains. Google rewards for SEF so no point in making sub domains or buying a domain with a keyword in.

Google wants more webmasters building a brand rather than stuffing keywords into the domain field, its now pointless to say the least.

If you create the sub domain with keywords Google will either not reward for the keywords or it may go against your site as a negative, no one truly knows exactly how Google puts the hammer down but what we do know is that Google loves Search Engine Friendly URLS so include your keywords in the URL path as Google loves...

A few resources on Google's EMD below:


Related Source: A question I answered awhile back

Google cares little for EMD 'Exact Match Domains', so there is little
to no benefit in actually using keywords in the domain name


Additionally Resources:


Source: Search Engine Land

Well, it's official - no more free lunch for EMD, now that the Google
EMD Update has launched. It worked well, for a long time. A whole
industry of exact match domain tools and brokers came up. Huge premium
prices for good names just went through the roof when it was a real
“money keyword.” For quite a while, it was possible to rank in the
TOP3 with literally no backlinks, compared to non EMDs, often after
only a few days in literally every niche you can dream of. Exact Match
Domains (AKA Keyword Domains) are, in general, domain names that
exactly match the keyword.


Video: Matt Cutts explains keywords in domains pre EMD Update

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