Google Begins Penalising Domain Leasing
Barry Schwartz (via Hacker News):
Google issued a warning about sites that lease out its own subdomains and subfolders so that other companies can rank their content better on leased domains. Well, now it seems Google is taking action by penalizing those sections of sites that have these leased out sections.
I don’t quite understand how they decide whether a subdomain or subfolder is considered legit. And likewise for links. Some types of sponsored links are OK, but certain topics will kill your Page Rank.
