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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tyrese Bauch" data-source="post: 29062" data-attributes="member: 11329">Quick question for the SEO crowd:Since Google generally treats subdomains as separate sites, does that mean we could technically scale using just one domain and spin up multiple subdomains instead of buying new domains?Example: example.com, site1.example.com, site2.example.com  each acting as its own “money site.”The reason I’m asking is cost. If someone wants to scale to ~100 sites monthly, buying domains alone could run $1,300+ monthly Subdomains would avoid that expense.But here’s the trade‑off I’m wondering about:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Do subdomains really start from zero authority, meaning you’d need to build links for each one separately?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Or can they benefit from the root domain’s authority in practice?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Is this a viable scaling strategy, or does it dilute SEO power compared to using subdirectories or separate domains?</li> </ul>Curious to hear from anyone who’s tested this at scale is saving on domains worth the SEO effort, or does it backfire long‑term?</blockquote>