Third Level Power

Hi all thanks for coming,

I'm going to try and explain my problem as best as possible...if you have any other questions please ask me.

I have an affiliate program, to track which sales come from where i have created a seperate third level sub domain unique to each partner. I have around 120 partners all of which link to their theird level (i.e. my version) multiple times.

What i now want to do is to figure out a way that i can get a SE to count the inbound links to the third level sub domains to the core domain.

For example...If i have site tp.domain.com set up and that has 50 inbound links, i want the 50 links to be contributed to the core domain i.e. domain.com

Any help is appreciated, let me know if you need any other info.

Don't think that's gonna happen. Sub domains are considered separate domains and I don't think there is really anything that can be done about that, short of the search engines making such a change in their algos.

Maybe there are developments I don't know about so if I'm wrong, somebody please chime in.

If all the links are unique, in other words, all the links have an unique affiliate code, there just isn't anything to transfer. Each unique url is considered a separate page.

That said, if you have several separate subdomains that are showing some tool bar green, ... is there a way to transfer the PR?

I say no.

However, there are a great many webmasters that believe a 301 redirect will transfer PR. I personally don't think a 301 does transfer PR. Using the Google tool bar, and looking at the effect of a 301, it does "look like" PR is being transferred, but I think that is only Google's duplicate filter, and I've never seen evidence where it counts, and where it counts is the SERP.

The reason I bring that up is, if you are one of the webmasters that believe a 301 will pass PR, why couldn't you install a script that sends "only googlebot" a 301 to your root domain, and everyone else to the subdomain?

Not that I'm recommending you do this. I personally don't believe 301s are included in the PR process. And add to that, it would be a form of cloaking, and that is against Google's TOS.

Actually, I'm just trying to highjack your thread and hopefully get in an argument (with anyone who cares) about 301s and PR transfer.