Unrelated subdomain hurts domain rankins?

[vtmoz]

Hi All,

One of our subdomains has lot of content created by different users and mostly they are outgoing links from landing pages. Moreover the top ranking content is about "cigarettes" which is nowhere related to our niche. Will this hurt our domain rankings?

[julie-getonthemap]

I certainly think it would hurt you in your link building activity. Many websites will state that they don't support content related to alcohol, tobacco or gambling.

Unless it is a huge money maker for you, I would purge that content.