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Thanks Ruben. Their blog is already set up on a subdomain. For my own site though I have our blog on WP and use the exact plugins you mentioned.

When setting up a Hubspot blog you are asked to create a subdomain such as blog.website.com in order to have the blog hosted there.

Two questions:

1. Does a blog on a subdomain pass on SEO credit to the main domain? 
My understanding is that a subdomain is treated like a unique site but I'm not finding current articles to confirm this is still true.

2. If it does not pass on credit to the main domain and the subdomain is only building "SEO love" for itself but your posts are getting found and driving conversions... from a marketing perspective does this non-transfer of SEO credit really matter? Meaning if blog.website.com is linked to the navigation on website.com, your site has quality content, has relevant calls to action, and you are lead nurturing like a good marketer... does the passing of SEO credit matter if your posts are what's getting found and filling the top of the funnel?

Thank you in advance,
Christine

Wondering if this ever got resolved? I have a few clients on Hubspot as well and we are concerned that since the blog lives on a subdomain (blog.website.com) we are concerned that the core site is not getting the SEO credit it deserves. We have had to submit the blog sitemap to GWT separately just as you would a www. version of the site. When asking Hubspot about this they were not able to really answer since it's more of a Google/SEO question.

Thanks in advance... still on the hunt to find out more!

Thanks Ruben. Their blog is already set up on a subdomain. For my own site though I have our blog on WP and use the exact plugins you mentioned.

When setting up a Hubspot blog you are asked to create a subdomain such as blog.website.com in order to have the blog hosted there.

Two questions:

1. Does a blog on a subdomain pass on SEO credit to the main domain? 
My understanding is that a subdomain is treated like a unique site but I'm not finding current articles to confirm this is still true.

2. If it does not pass on credit to the main domain and the subdomain is only building "SEO love" for itself but your posts are getting found and driving conversions... from a marketing perspective does this non-transfer of SEO credit really matter? Meaning if blog.website.com is linked to the navigation on website.com, your site has quality content, has relevant calls to action, and you are lead nurturing like a good marketer... does the passing of SEO credit matter if your posts are what's getting found and filling the top of the funnel?

Thank you in advance,
Christine