Impact of wiping content on a subdomain

[think-web]

Hi,

I've been asked to look at the impact of bulk deleting content on a blog subdomain and how it could impact the SEO of a linked www subdomain.

Can deleting content on one subdomain have a negative impact on other linked subdomains?

Thanks

[Alick300]

Hi,

AFAIK Google considers Subdomain as independent site so deleting content won't make any impact of linked www subdomain but i would suggest you to wait for more response from other community members.

Second before deleting any content you must check Google Analyics whether you are getting traffic from those posts or not and if you are getting significant traffic you shouldn't delete the post.

Thanks

[ClaytonJ]

I am not 100% in agreement with Alick. Google struggles a bit with subdomains, it sometimes treats them as separate websites sometimes as the same website.  John Mueller informed Distilled of same circa 12 months ago.

I would be cautious going down the path suggested, can you not migrate the content and re-direct?

Hope that helps.