New: Google Classifies Subdomains As Internal Links Within Webmaster Tools
The Google Webmaster Blog announced a significantly large change to how Google Webmaster Tools classifies subdomains. Google has changed the way they handle reporting links within Google Webmaster Tools. Instead of considering subdomain links as external links, they are now considered internal links. Google made this announcement on their Google Webmaster Blog, explaining that this applies to both the non-WWW and WWW versions and other subdomains on the domain name. Google explained: