Blog in subfolder or folder

[seoug_2005]

SEO best practices says that one should put blog in a subfolder. Like

www.example,com/blog

In the above case, should we say that the blog is in folder or subfolder. Actually, i have been unsure about this folder vs subfolder thing. Some examples of this would be appreciated.

What is the example of a blog in a subdomain ?

Thanks

[SimonCullum]

You're welcome

[seoug_2005]

Thanks a lot Simon for your clarification.

[SimonCullum]

Hi Atul

You are correct, it's considered SEO best practice to host a blog on the main domain rather than a subdomain (No. 5 in http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/domain which I'm sure you've seen).

As for the naming of either 'Folder' or 'Sub-folder';  both are used and either one is appropriate, they are essentially the same thing.

To try to remove any possible confusion though, I tend to call a deeper part of a main site a Folder, whereas a deeper part of a sub-domain a Sub-folder.  Thus keeping the word 'Sub' associated with a Sub-domain.

So I'd call www.example.com/blog a Folder  and  blog.example.com/news a Sub-folder.

Regards

Simon