Best place for a blog blog.mydomain.com or mydomain.com/blog

[tempowebdesign]

We have used blogs on a good number of client sites and always got good results from having them.

However do you feel its best to have a blog as a subdomain or included in the site

ie

blog.mydomain.com or mydomain.com/blog

[Pure710]

So if my site is within a week old, I have 15 or so articles already published under the new site. I'm just trying to grasp this here. I think your saying I should have 1 subdomain for my blog and the main domain is the actual website?

[bradkrussell]

Great answer by Robert - 100% agree.

This question has been asked a lot on SEOmoz, here's some previous examples:

1. http://www.seomoz.org/q/blog-vs-blog
2. http://www.seomoz.org/q/best-directory-or-subdomain-for-a-blog

[RobertChapman]

I'm going to agree with the Noisey Little Monkey and Andy,

I answered a question similar to this a while back - check it out

The summary - Rand did a great article on this a while back- http://www.seomoz.org/blog/unders...

There are also multiple other questions of a similar nature.

http://www.seomoz.org/pages/searc...

General consensus is be sub-folder over sub-domain.

Main reason - Sub Folders get the benefits from the root domain, Sub Domains don't.

Here's the key take away from Rands article:

"1 subdomain under 1 root domain (but feel free to use subfolders as it makes sense). Starting a blog? I almost always recommend yoursite.com/blog over blog.yoursite.com. Want to launch a new section of content? Use yoursite.com/newstuff rather than newstuff.yoursite.com."

Hopefully this will have helped you make your mind up.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Absolutely agree - much easier for link juice to flow down the latter as well. Seeing less and less going for sub-domains now.

Directory structure all the way!

[NoisyLittleMonkey]

I'd go for the latter "mydomain.com/blog", then any links built to your awesome content will be on the same sub-domain as the rest of your content. Works wonders.