Google’s John Mueller responded to a detailed technical question regarding ccTLDs, wildcard subdomains and the likelihood of it being seen as doorway pages in a Stack Exchange thread.

In short, the webmaster wants to create websites that would target city names around the world, whereby TLD for each countries will be used. Here is the mapping they were considering:

www.website.de for let’s say Germany and www.website.cn for China and the sub-domains will be www.berlin.website.de and www.beijing.website.cn, as an example.

Google’s John Mueller responded that this won’t be a good idea.

Let me share John’s full response since it can be a bit technical:

Venturing overseas with content, especially with travel destination like sites, can be very tricky. This is especially true in the Panda world.

Forum discussion at Stack Exchange.

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