Internally linked pages from different subdomain must be well optimised?

[vtmoz]

Hi all,

We have guide/help pages from different subdomain (help.website.com). And we have linked these from 3rd hierarchy level pages of our website (website.com/folder1/topic2). But help.website sumdomain & pages are not well optimised. So, I am not sure linking these subdomain pages from our website pages hurts our rankings?

Thanks,

[MikeTek]

Hi vtmoz,

I would not fear a negative impact on the main domain from linking to poorly-optimized subdomain pages. Negative impacts from linking to "bad neighborhoods" are limited to cases where you're linking to true webspam (some examples from Google here).

At worst, you're linking to pages that won't rank well because they are not well-optimized for search, but the main site and pages will not be negatively effected.

Hope this helps clear things up.

Best,
Mike

[shiva2020]

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