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What is the problem with subdomains?

George from glrsales -

I have two questions:

First, many directories refuse subdomains or "deep links". Besides putting that in the small print (and some don't), why not have the submission script refuse to accept them? It is a few lines of trivial code. It would save the submitter the torment of having submissions rejected and it would save the review the time of having to deal with those submissions.

The second have of the question is what does it actually accomplish? Refusing those submissions?

I should add that all of the directories from glrsales welcome subdomains.

Comment #1 Amar from Earth -

well the namesettings for the emails don't work well either.

Unless you are just parking a domain over another one, why bother? Any hosting plan has a limit.

Comment #2 George from glrsales -

I meant when you are submitting your site to directories, they will accept www.glrsales.com but not http://webmasters.glrsales.com. What is the difference to them?

Comment #3 George Bailey from Detroit -

Maybe they think it is a way to have mass produced nonlistings For example, if someone posts to a subdomain to a free mass directory then they can have maybe 50 subdirectory urls driving traffic to a main site url. What the yield is then is 50 times the traffic that a site owner can claim they are getting 50 times the actual hits.

People use these hits to sell domains for one thing. The traffic stats look like they are getting mass volume.

Comment #4 Nancy from Los Angeles -

True, but it would be easy (and more effective) for a directory to limit you to 1 listing per domain (for 3 listings or whatever they like).

Comment #5 Sapphire from Outer Space -

I agree with George, they just need to put in their code to not accept the submission. If the url is accepted, one naturally assumes that there was no problem with a subdomain. They just need to be upfront about it.

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