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Placing blogs in subdomains or subdirectories?

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    Placing blogs in subdomains or subdirectories?

    What is the based place to place a blog from an SEO point of view? Make them subdomains or subdirectories (aka blog.domainame.com or domainame.com/blog)?

    Placing blogs in subdomains or subdirectories?

    From what I've tried over the years, subdomains (blog.domainame.com) make terrible blogs from an SEO point of view. Really terrible rankings no matter how much you try to create quality content and get good backlinks!

    I had way much better results having blogs in subdirectories (domainame.com/blog ) and I even installed Magento on the domain and Wordpress on the subdirectory, had no problems in ranking high-level keywords.

    On the other hand, subdomains are more visual appealing than subdirectories in my opinion and I wish Google will become smart enough to treat subdomain blogs as it treats subdirectory blogs.

    What do you think?

    #Subdomains #Subdirectories SEO
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    anwebservices

    anwebservices

    From my experience, subdomains are not wrong, but subdirectories working much better then subdomains i guess. Because of SEO and SERP. It's also easier to track your stats when you keep your blog on subdirectory. in some cases, blog on subdomain can be treated as completely different website. Probably get different domain and page authority as well. So i always stick to use blog on subdirectory
    8 years ago
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    vinaya

    vinaya

    I think it is good to have the blog on a sub-directory instead of subdomain. I have been on Hubpages since 2010. Hubpages allowed to have a subdomain for each user. After letting users have a subdomain for years, Hubpages finally moved the user accounts from subdomain to sub directory. The reason they stated was: Google did not have high opinion about subdomain and it did not care much about subdomains, which resulted in the loss of Google traffic. Since Hubpages is one if the biggest writing websites, we can trust their findings.
    7 years ago
    1969-12-31T19:00:00-0500

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