{"id":2506,"date":"2026-02-10T21:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/?p=2506"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:40:59","slug":"what-subdomain-setup-actually-protects-domain-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/what-subdomain-setup-actually-protects-domain-reputation\/","title":{"rendered":"What subdomain setup actually protects domain reputation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P class=\"\"><SPAN>Hello, basically I&#8217;m trying to answer the question &#8220;What email infrastructure do I actually need?&#8221; for marketing emails with HubSpot.<\/SPAN><\/P><P class=\"\"><SPAN>I&#8217;ve constantly seen and read &#8220;create an email sending subdomain&#8221; but it&#8217;s fuzzy on if it&#8217;s as simple as setting up records in DNS and email marketing platforms, or if we actually need to purchase additional domains and email users\/accounts in order to get true value from this.<\/SPAN><\/P><P class=\"\">\u00a0<\/P><P class=\"\"><SPAN>Our current setup:<\/SPAN><\/P><UL><LI><SPAN>Email sending subdomain: GoDaddy via CNAME record &#8220;news.domain.org&#8221;<\/SPAN><\/LI><LI><SPAN>CRM \/ email marketing platform: HubSpot<\/SPAN><UL><LI><SPAN>HubSpot email sending domain 1: &#8220;domain.org&#8221;<\/SPAN><\/LI><LI><SPAN>HubSpot email sending domain 2: &#8220;news.domain.org&#8221;<\/SPAN><\/LI><LI><SPAN>Email service: Google Workspace<\/SPAN><UL><LI><SPAN>User alias domain: &#8220;news.domain.org&#8221; (I set this up so that we can receive replies to the marketing emails sent via the subdomain)<\/SPAN><\/LI><\/UL><\/LI><\/UL><\/LI><\/UL><P><SPAN>My Questions:\u00a0<\/SPAN><\/P><UL><LI><SPAN>Does using the \u201c<\/SPAN><U><SPAN>news.domain.org<\/SPAN><\/U><SPAN>\u201d subdomain for HubSpot marketing emails ACTUALLY do anything for us vs just using &#8220;domain.org&#8221;? Or is it a bunch of fluff because it&#8217;s really all under the one main &#8220;domain.org.&#8221;<\/SPAN><\/LI><LI>Do I need to purchase a TRUE different domain vs just creating a subdomain?<\/LI><LI><SPAN>Do I need a true new Google Workspace user OR entire account? Or is using a &#8220;User alias domain&#8221; combined with the CNAME subdomain sufficient?<\/SPAN><\/LI><\/UL><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, basically I&#8217;m trying to answer the question &#8220;What email infrastructure do I actually need?&#8221; for marketing emails with HubSpot.I&#8217;ve constantly seen and read &#8220;create an email sending subdomain&#8221; but it&#8217;s fuzzy on if it&#8217;s as simple as setting up records in DNS and email marketing platforms, or if we actually need to purchase additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2507,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2506\/revisions\/2507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gogetmuscle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}