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    • tempowebdesign
      tempowebdesign last edited by

      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

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      • Pure710
        Pure710 @RobertChapman last edited by

        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?

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        • bradkrussell
          bradkrussell @RobertChapman last edited by

          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
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          • RobertChapman
            RobertChapman last edited by

            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.

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            • Andy.Drinkwater
              Andy.Drinkwater last edited by

              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!

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              • NoisyLittleMonkey
                NoisyLittleMonkey last edited by

                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.

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